Sarah Kane: great writer

I've just read Sarah Kane's posthumous Completed Plays. This is a collection of plays, each of which are mind-expandingly great. I'm floored by Kane's simplicity, both in words and action, motion, inaction, and... Imagine Homer's The Odyssey written in simple... Nah, that comparison is wrong. Kane is much stronger than Homer, in human ways. Sure, The Odyssey is about gods and humans, and Kane wrote beautifully and honestly and fat-renderedly about human experiences. Catharsis without shock value. Innards-out without trying-to-impress. I'll let the first paragraphs of the introduction of the book speak: Sarah Kane is best known for the way her career began, in the extraordinary public controversy over Blasted, and the it ended: in her suicide and the posthumous production of her last play, 4.48 Psychosis. Both were shocking and defining moments in recent British theatre and their way shadows are bound to haunt any reading of her work. But it would be a pity if these extraordinary…