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** No doubt like Theatre/Cleansed, the play can be seen as a look at A Lover's Discourse.

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** No doubt like Theatre/Cleansed, Theatre/{{Cleansed}}, the play can be seen as a look at A Lover's Discourse.



*** The play has quotes from Theatre/Hamlet, Literature/TheBible, Creator/TSEliot Literature/TheWasteLand and Creator/AleisterCrowley. [[note]] this link gives a better list of quotes http://www.iainfisher.com/kane/eng/kane-quotation.html [[/note]]

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*** The play has quotes from Theatre/Hamlet, Theatre/{{Hamlet}}, Literature/TheBible, Creator/TSEliot Literature/TheWasteLand and Creator/AleisterCrowley. [[note]] this link gives a better list of quotes http://www.iainfisher.com/kane/eng/kane-quotation.html [[/note]]
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*** The play has quotes from Theatre/Hamlet, Literature/TheBible, Creator/TSEliot Literature/TheWasteLand and Creator/AleisterCrowley. [[/note]] this link gives a better list of quotes http://www.iainfisher.com/kane/eng/kane-quotation.html [[note]]

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*** The play has quotes from Theatre/Hamlet, Literature/TheBible, Creator/TSEliot Literature/TheWasteLand and Creator/AleisterCrowley. [[/note]] [[note]] this link gives a better list of quotes http://www.iainfisher.com/kane/eng/kane-quotation.html [[note]][[/note]]
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* CommitmentIssues: Due to C's bad childhood she refuses A's desire for her.


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* TheILoveYouStigma: A loves C with all his heart, he has to prove it over and over but she can't return it, until of course near the end she starts to return it but the damage is done and A has moved on.

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The play is filled with literary allusions of The Bible and T.S.Eliot's The Waste Land among others.



* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnyhting: Sarah was friends with Martin Crimp, his plays Attempts on her Life which is very similar in style to Crave.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnyhting: DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Sarah was friends with Martin Crimp, his plays Attempts on her Life which is very similar in style to Crave.



* ShoutOut: This play has quite a few:

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* ShoutOut: This play has quite a few:few, lyrics from songs and even a line from The Tibetan Book of the Dead:



** The line "a Vietnamese girl..." is a reference to the Napalm girl Photograph



*** The play has quotes from Theatre/Hamlet, Literature/TheBible, Creator/TSEliot Literature/TheWasteLand and Creator/AleisterCrowley. [[note]] this link gives a better list of quotes http://www.iainfisher.com/kane/eng/kane-quotation.html [[note/]]
* SourOutsideSadInside: All the characters have problems

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*** The play has quotes from Theatre/Hamlet, Literature/TheBible, Creator/TSEliot Literature/TheWasteLand and Creator/AleisterCrowley. [[note]] [[/note]] this link gives a better list of quotes http://www.iainfisher.com/kane/eng/kane-quotation.html [[note/]]
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* SourOutsideSadInside: All the characters have problemsproblems that make you hate them then feel sorry for them.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnyhting: Sarah was friends with Martin Crimp, his plays Attempts on her Life which is very similar in style to Crave.
** The play also has material from Sarah's pre-Blasted monolouges.



** First off the concepts for the play include Martin Crimp's Attempts on her Life which is very similar in style.
** Then she read Rainer Werner Fassbinder's play Pre-Paradise Sorry Now, which inspired her first draft.
** The play might also have material from her pre-Blasted works.
*** Creator/SamuelBeckett's iconic Theatre/WaitingForGodot and his later plays have been noticed in the Crave.
*** The play has quotes from Literature/TheBible, Creator/TSEliot Literature/TheWasteLand and Creator/AleisterCrowley.

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** First off the concepts for No doubt like Theatre/Cleansed, the play include Martin Crimp's Attempts on her Life which is very similar in style.
** Then she read
can be seen as a look at A Lover's Discourse.
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder's play Pre-Paradise Sorry Now, which inspired her the first draft.
** The play might also have material from her pre-Blasted works.
***
Creator/SamuelBeckett's iconic Theatre/WaitingForGodot and his later plays have been noticed in the Crave.
*** The play has quotes from Theatre/Hamlet, Literature/TheBible, Creator/TSEliot Literature/TheWasteLand and Creator/AleisterCrowley.Creator/AleisterCrowley. [[note]] this link gives a better list of quotes http://www.iainfisher.com/kane/eng/kane-quotation.html [[note/]]
* SourOutsideSadInside: All the characters have problems

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* ShoutOut:

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\n* ShoutOut:ShoutOut: This play has quite a few:
** First off the concepts for the play include Martin Crimp's Attempts on her Life which is very similar in style.
** Then she read Rainer Werner Fassbinder's play Pre-Paradise Sorry Now, which inspired her first draft.
** The play might also have material from her pre-Blasted works.
*** Creator/SamuelBeckett's iconic Theatre/WaitingForGodot and his later plays have been noticed in the Crave.
*** The play has quotes from Literature/TheBible, Creator/TSEliot Literature/TheWasteLand and Creator/AleisterCrowley.

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* DownerEnding: Well [[spoiler:C dies]] and everyone will be affected by it.



* HeelFaceTurn: A spends the play wanting to be C's lover but she refuses however near the end he gives up on her just as she tries to have one.

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* HeelFaceTurn: A spends the play wanting to be C's lover but she refuses however near the end he gives up on her just as she tries to have one.wants him.



* StalkerWithACrush: A is stalking [[spoiler:C]] but claims that he isn't.

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* StalkerWithACrush: A is stalking [[spoiler:C]] but claims that he isn't.isn't.

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* AdultsAreUseless: [[spoiler:C]] was abused by her [[spoiler:Grandfather and Father]] and her Mother did nothing towards so she rejected her mother.

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* AdultsAreUseless: [[spoiler:C]] was might have been abused by her [[spoiler:Grandfather and Father]] and her Mother did nothing towards so she rejected her mother.


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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: B in the latter half of the play is playing [[spoiler:C's Father]] who displays possible remorse for what he did and the fear [[spoiler:she]] might die and his only way to accept it is to [[spoiler:die himself]].
* ParentalSubstitute: Both M and B represent the parents of C throughout the play.
* PenName: Sarah used the pen name "Marie Kelvedon", the name came from her middle name and the town she was raised in. She felt then the play wasn't tainted by her other plays and she even created a fictional biography for Marie.


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** In fact some people have suggested that the whole play might not connect at all but be the verses of depression.
* SexForSolace: M is a older woman that clearly is having sex while drunk for the reason she wants to be loved.
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Crave is the fourth play of Creator/SarahKane, which premiered in 1998.

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Crave is the fourth play of by Creator/SarahKane, which premiered in 1998.



* ThoughTheEyesOfMadness: The whole play has this feeling, it presents a depressed mind that desires nothing more for the madness to end.

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* ThoughTheEyesOfMadness: ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The whole play has this feeling, it presents a depressed mind that desires nothing more for the madness to end.
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* HeelFaceTurn: A spends the play wanting to be C's lover but she refuses however near the end he gives up on her just as she tries to have one.
* {{Improv}}: Since there is no direction of what to do the director and cast need to do?


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* ThoughTheEyesOfMadness: The whole play has this feeling, it presents a depressed mind that desires nothing more for the madness to end.
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* AdultsAreUseless: [[spoiler:C]] was abused by her [[spoiler:Grandfather and Father]] and her Mother did nothing towards so she rejected her mother.



* CreatorCameo: Sarah herself played "C" for a few performances.

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* CreatorCameo: Sarah herself played "C" for a few performances.performances.
* DontYouDarePityMe: A wants C to love him but she is unable to return it.
* GoodbyeCruelWorld: Throughout the [[spoiler:C]] is going down the slope until the end where despite the others unwilling to accept it, however once [[spoiler:she]] does it the peace finally come.
* {{Minimalism}}: The play has no direction, no setting and the characters names are only letters to represent themselves so nothing is set in stone.
* StalkerWithACrush: A is stalking [[spoiler:C]] but claims that he isn't.
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* CreatorCameo: Sarah

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* CreatorCameo: SarahSarah herself played "C" for a few performances.
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!!The Play contains the following Tropes:

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!!The Play contains the following Tropes:Tropes:
* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: The characters are named only in the script and have only a single letter to say who they are A,B,C and M.
* CreatorCameo: Sarah

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The play takes on the issues of rape, incest, pedophilia, anorexia, drug addiction, mental instability, murder, and suicide. The Characters however are
Fearing that her name would affect the play's success, Sarah used the pseudonym "Marie Kelvedon", this play would be the last play to open in Sarah's lifetime.

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The play takes on the issues of rape, incest, pedophilia, anorexia, drug addiction, mental instability, murder, and suicide. The Characters however are
Characters, are as minimal as possible with their names being nothing more than a single letter and the play has no setting or directions.

Fearing that her name would affect the play's success, Sarah used the pseudonym "Marie Kelvedon", this play would be the last play to open in Sarah's lifetime.lifetime.

!!The Play contains the following Tropes:

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Compared to the other plays that Sarah wrote it was a shift in her style, in place of the graphic nature, Crave is a poetic series of four voices that express plan in love with deep issues haunting the four characters on stage. Fearing that her name would affect the play's success, Sarah used the pseudonym "Marie Kelvedon", this play would be the last play to open in Sarah's lifetime.

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Compared to the other plays that Sarah wrote it was a shift in her style, in place of the graphic nature, Crave is a poetic series of four voices that express plan in love with deep issues haunting the four characters on stage. stage.
The play takes on the issues of rape, incest, pedophilia, anorexia, drug addiction, mental instability, murder, and suicide. The Characters however are
Fearing that her name would affect the play's success, Sarah used the pseudonym "Marie Kelvedon", this play would be the last play to open in Sarah's lifetime.
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Crave is the fourth play of Creator/SarahKane, which premiered in 1998.
Compared to the other plays that Sarah wrote it was a shift in her style, in place of the graphic nature, Crave is a poetic series of four voices that express plan in love with deep issues haunting the four characters on stage. Fearing that her name would affect the play's success, Sarah used the pseudonym "Marie Kelvedon", this play would be the last play to open in Sarah's lifetime.

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