February 18 - March 13, 2011
at the Manny Fried Playhouse
The Buffalo premiere of
 4:48
PSYCHOSIS
by Sarah Kane
Directed by Brian Zybala*
Starring Rebecca Ward*
February 18th - March 13th
Fridays, & Saturdays @ 8pm,
Sundays @ 6pm
Tickets $18.00 General Admission
or $13.00 for students, seniors, and Subversive Theatre Members
(all Sunday performances
are pay-what-you-can)
Journey
with us into the abyss. Break
through the taboo of mental illness. Come
away with an understanding of depression.
Know what it is like to fight for your life against the toughest
foe, your own mind. It’s
time to wake from our psychosis and look depression and suicide in the face.
4:48 PSYCHOSIS
was the last play written by controversial British author Sarah Kane
only days before she committed suicide at London's King's College Hospital
where she was being treated for severe depression. This raw and
unflinching work offers a rare and empassioned glimpse into the mind of
someone battling suicidal thoughts . . . as well as a unique opportunity to
appreciate the tortured existence of the 8%-12% of our society who suffer from
depression.
With a script as daring and challenging
as its subject matter, 4:48 PSYCHOSIS
does not specify the number of characters, who should speak which
lines, or how the play is to be set. So
we have called upon experimental Director Brian Zybala* (who crafted
our previous productions of OUROBOROS and '84) and the acting
talents of Rebecca Ward* to throw audiences into Kane’s world without
judgment but with purpose. Audience
members will learn that depression is real and not something you can just “get
over,” but a lifelong and
sometimes life ending battle.
Kane’s words flow and jump in a poetic nightmare.
Whether you are interested in the debate over medicating depression,
want to know how a family member has felt, need to know that you are not
alone, or just want an evening of theatre that is on the cutting edge; 4:48
PSYCHOSIS will not disappoint.
Depression lives and grows in the darkness, help us bring it into
the light.
4:48
PSYCHOSIS runs February 18th - March 13th with performances
Fridays and Saturdays
at 8pm and Sundays at 6pm at Subversive Theatre’s regular performance venue, The Manny Fried
Playhouse at 255 Great Arrow Avenue on the third floor of North
Buffalo’s Great Arrow Building. Tickets
are $18 general admission or $13 for students, seniors, and Subversive Theatre
members. For all Sunday performances, admission is on a
pay-what-you-can basis.
For more information please give
us a call at 716-408-0499.
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