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Cleansed

by Sarah Kane

to 5 May
Running Time: 1 hour 45 mins with no interval

Dorfman Theatre

Nothing short of magnificent

Financial Times

Uncompromising. Intoxicating. Scrupulously crafted.

Evening Standard

Remarkable. Savagely beautiful.

Time Out

Has the power to shock. A drama deeply concerned with the agony of love.

Daily Telegraph

Katie Mitchell's staging is unyielding in its grisly precision and nightmarish intensity.

Sunday Times

Dream-like. Simultaneously repellent and compelling.

The Stage

Sarah Kane: Staging The Unstageable

Here's a look at why Sarah Kane's Cleansed is a challenge for actors and directors, and what Kane might have intended by including seemingly impossible stage directions.

Five of the best... Sarah Kane plays

Michelle Terry and Graham Butler as Grace and Graham

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