BLASTED

AUTHOR – SARAH KANE

TITTLE – BLASTED

EDITORIAL – METHUNEN

YEAR OF PUBLICATION – 1995

PLACE OF PUBLICATION – LONDON

CHARACTERS

IAN

He is 45 years old, he is very racist, he is a murderer. He has cancer.

CATE

She is 21 years old. She is epileptic.

SUMMARY

In the bedroom of a hotel room Ian, an obnoxious businessman, has Cate for the night. She is down to earth and unused to luxury. Then the soldier enters. The hotel is in a Bosnian Leeds and the events that follow reflect the pain and suffering that Bosnia endured. Kane uses the viewpoints of both oppressor and victim.

SPACE

A room in a hotel.

TIME

The play happen in summer, in autum, in spring and in winter.

LANGUAGE

The play is written in prose with a informal language.

PERSONAL OPINION

I think that this play has a lot of violencie so that I do not like so much but I like some aspects of this such as the form to write the author because the author express very well the emotions of the characters.