Sarah, Cain Drama Series

Author: (English) Caine, Sarah, translated by Hu Kaiqi
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: This book includes all five works from Sarah Caine's brief life: The Destroyed, Phaedra's Love, Washing, Thirst, and 4.48 Mental Breakdown. Among them, 4.48 Mental Breakdown was performed at the Shanghai Theatre Center in October of this year. The play borrows the narrative framework of The Sorrows of Young Werther to depict the psychological experience of a woman with depression as she contemplates suicide. The title "4.48" is named after the time 4:48 a.m., which is considered the moment when physiological mental instability reaches its peak and is most prone to suicide. These five plays form an artistic whole, representing each step of Sarah Caine's theatrical exploration. She portrays and reveals the darkest and most ruthless aspects of the human heart: the realm of violence, the realm of loneliness, the realm of power, the realm of mental breakdown, and the realm of unwavering love.