Evans lines up alongside Jo McInnes and Madeleine Potter, to perform a script that is organized into 24 loose sections without any characters or stage directions. It’s an agonising portrait of a single disintegrating psyche, a soul in crisis, wracked by the clinical depression that haunted Kane herself.
‘4.48 Psychosis ‘s’ original cast – Daniel Evans, Jo McInnes, and Madeleine Potter – return to star in the Royal Court production (Photo: Marc Brenner)The text takes us through the filling-in of a doctor’s mental health questionnaire – ‘I do not want to die… I do not want to live’ – and offers fragments of conversation with myriad medical professionals. “There’s not a drug on earth can make life meaningful”, says Potter, as she rails against taking medication for fear of it blunting her creativity. Nonetheless, she recounts her journey through a number of anti-depressants and anti-psychotics, in a variety of doses and with a panoply of side effects.
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When the piece premiered in 2000, trigger warnings were still a far-off invention, so I do not envy the Royal Court grappling with this issue for this play now. The great irony is that it is those who have experienced mental health difficulties of their own who will most appreciate this abstract but ferocious work.
To 5th July (royalcourttheatre.com), then at The Other Place, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon, 10th-27th July (rsc.org.uk)
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