Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... British playwright Sarah Kane’s “Blasted” is dark. This bears repeating, not to warn you off seeing the play, but as a critic’s version of due diligence.

This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. Two years ago, the most talked about off-Broadway play was a work that no one seemed to know how to say. The play was titled [sic], but spelled s-i-c with ...

Blasted (2022) is a sci-fi comedy film with a twist of nostalgia. It follows childhood friends Sebastian and Mikkel, reunited for Sebastian’s bachelor party. Sebastian, a career-focused workaholic, ...

Sarah Kane’s 1995 play Blasted opens in “a very expensive hotel room in Leeds — so expensive it could be anywhere in the world.” In the first scene, a childlike woman and a grizzled journalist — ...

Last month, I asked whether Blasted can still shock, 20 years on, now we know what's coming. Richard Wilson's staging, the start of Sheffield's Sarah Kane season, shows that it needn't. It's shocking, ...