'Sarah Kane's first play was hugely controversial when staged at the Royal Court in 1995 and, if the intervening years have diminished its shock value a little, it remains a deeply divisive piece about the reality of violence, a sensory onslaught will prompt walkouts but also inspire epiphanies.'
Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard (London), 29.10.10
'Blasted is undoubtedly a ... Read morelandmark of modern theatre, its moral force at once uncanny and explosive.'
Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard (London), 29.10.10
'Kane's play is wild, but artful too.'
Susannah Clapp, Observer, 31.10.10
'this is a play of exceptional power and prescience.'
Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 1.11.10
'now rightly regarded as a milestone in British theatre.'
Paul Callan, Daily Express, 5.11.10
Twenty years after it opened to critical incomprehension and outrage, there's no way that Sarah Kane's Blasted can be dismissed as a naive shocker. It's far too smartly crafted for that. The play wears its magpie borrowings on its sleeve - from Brecht to Beckett to Pinter - and still rings loudly with the clarity of Kane's own bell-like Cassandra voice.
Guardian
Blasted emerges yet again as a devastating achievement, a play of furious passion and thrilling theatrical audacity . . . a landmark play of undiminished power.
The Times
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