CLEANSED

BY SARAH KANE

 

VCA MASTERS SEASON

 

SEPTEMBER 2008

 

"Sarah Kane's Cleansed is a nightmare of a play, it unreels somewhere between the back of your eyes and the center of your brain with an unpredictable but remorseless logic. As with a nightmare, you cannot shut it out because nightmares are experienced with your whole body. As with a nightmare you feel that somebody else is dreaming it for you, spinning images out of some need that you don’t want to think of as your own.” JOHN PETER - THE SUNDAY TIMES

 

In an institution designed to rid society of its undesirables, a group of inmates try to save themselves through love.

 

directed by Adena Jacobs

set & costume: Eugyeene Teh

lighting design: Tom Willis

sound design: Jared Lewis

stage manager: Julia Smith

 

performed by Meredith Penman, Tristan Meecham, Aaron Orzech, Ben Pfeifer, Russ Pirie, Mick Lo Monaco and Lauren Urquhart