History Theatre / Blasted

* KickTheSonOfABitch: After Ian's awful behavior in the first part of the play, audiences likely wanted to see him taken down a peg. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor They do, in a violently cruel manner that no one, not even Ian, deserves.]]

* AngryWhiteMan: Ian uses racist language, insults Cate's disabled brother and regularly writes articles in newspapers that caters to others of his kind.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The war is ongoing, Ian has suffered horrific atrocities, and Cate has prostituted herself for food. To make matters worse, the universe doesn't seem to want to let Ian die.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Ian is a proud bigot in many ways, but apparently has nothing against the Jews: "who have they hurt?" He's also sickened by the Soldier's atrocities, although the fact that the Soldier's planning on visiting those atrocities upon ''him'' likely has something to do with it.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: After Ian's awful behavior in the first part of the play, audiences likely wanted to see him taken down a peg. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor They do.]]

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Ian is unapologetically bigoted towards just about every minority (except, oddly enough, Jewish people.)

* SociopathicSoldier: The Soldier claims to be motivated by the death of his girlfriend, but that doesn't make up for the atrocities he commits.

'''Soldier''': 'Cuz I've got a gun and you haven't.\\

!!The Following Play features the following Tropes:

* MeatVersusVeggies: Cate is a vegetarian, she clearly can imagine the pain the pigs had to deal with to the point of making her sick, she can't even eat from a plate that has meat on it.

* SexualKarma: [[spoiler:Ian rapes Cate, and is then raped in turn.

* CriticalDissonance: While the critics grace the play in their harshest words, it only provided Blasted with success, also Sarah was defected by some very powerful playwrights, including Edward Bond whose play Saved was the inspiration to Blasted, Harold Pinter also defected the play and Caryl Churchill called it a tender play.

* DownfallBySex: [[spoiler:Ian]] after failing to sweet talk [[spoiler:or Bully Cate]] into sex, rapes [[spoiler:her]] in the night but when [[spoiler:Cate]] awoke during the act, [[spoiler:Ian]] bit [[spoiler:her Vagina]], this happens between the scenes and in scene two it's still raw. No wonder the downfall happens.
* DrivenToSuicide: Twice, [[spoiler:the Soldier]] does it, [[spoiler:Ian]] fails to after the bullets from the gun are removed.

* ExtremeOmnivore: While alone in the wreckage of the hotel room while [[spoiler:Cate]] goes for food, blind and despite, [[spoiler:Ian]] has to eat [[spoiler:the corpse of the baby Cate]] buried.
* EyeScream: At the climax of the play, in view of the audience [[spoiler:The Soldier]] eats [[spoiler:Ian's eyes]] after sucking them out.
* HumansAreBastards: The play is simple yet blunt in this agreement. Sarah based the play on information coming out on Television about the War in Bosnian from 1992 to 1995.

* MenDontCry: Ian is a victim of this, he sees himself as a tough guy with his gun and his hyper masculine attitude fails to win over the simple Cate.
* {{Minimalism}}: The play does go from Naturalism of the Hotel Room to the abstract of the War Zone but while still being in this hotel.
* MinimalistCast: Three Characters
* TheNothingAfterDeath: [[spoiler:Ian]] in Scene Four argues with [[spoiler:Cate]] about there being nothing on the other side especially when [[spoiler:she gives the dead baby a Christian Funeral]].
* NoNameGiven: The Soldier and the Baby, but in earlier drafts of Blasted, Sarah did name the Soldier as from Eastern Europe in order to focus on the Bosnian War once again.
* NotScreenedforCritics: This was planned when Blasted originally opened at The Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, however it was being shown at the same time the press night for the Downstairs show, so the who's who of London Critics decided to see the Evening Performance of Blasted and the rest is history.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Ian is everything wrong with the world and we are made to hate him. After all this he is dying of some Chest Problems and during Scene 2 we kinda want him to die.
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:Ian]] rapes [[spoiler:Cate]] it's unseen but it still effects the story. Then [[spoiler:The Soldier]] does it to [[spoiler:Ian]] onstage[[note]]There is a theory that the War Zone scenes are meant to in Cate's mind thus why it's a War Zone in Leeds[[/note]].
* SexualKarma: See above, what goes around comes around terribly.
* SourOutsideSadInside: Ian despite his vile personalty, has flaws we want to hate him but at the same time we find out his family has disowned him and that he is facing his mortally possibly alone. But his cons outmatch the pros so.
* VindicatedByHistory: Even thought Blasted suffered the reception that it did in 1995, it survived in Europe and since Sarah's death has been seen as a decent play about the horrors of human nature that shapes theatre to this day.

* CueTheRain: Rain is used to signals the end of the current scene. It's also used to [[spoiler:awaken Ian after he "dies"]] at the end of the play.
* DownerEnding: Sarah doesn't fully give any of her work a happy ending, just as you think [[spoiler:Ian]] dies the roof leaks and restores him to life. There's no hope for anything in the world.

* BasedOnATrueStory: The infamous [[EyeScream eyeball scene]] was based on a section of ''Among the Thugs'', Bill Buford's undercover investigation of a hooligan firm; in that book, the events happened to a police officer. The shift of the play into the War Zone when the Soldier enters was based on the Bosnian War that Sarah saw on TV News while writing the play.
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Cate]] starts the play with a childlike innocent that has fits, she is sickened by the idea of meat, of course to [[spoiler:Ian]] there is nothing [[spoiler:he won't do]] after the night's ordeal [[spoiler:Cate]] nearly shoots [[spoiler:Ian]] before another fit. After escaping the hotel and dealing with the War that affects the city. After returning with a [[spoiler:dying]] baby, she is the only person that can help [[spoiler:Ian]] who is unable to help himself, then at the end [[spoiler:Cate's]] state is seen as desensitized to everything with [[spoiler:her bleeding thighs]] displaying the notion [[spoiler:she]] had sex with the soldiers for food, also [[spoiler:she is eating meat]].
* ColdBloodedTorture: The [[spoiler:Soldier]] has seen the death of his girlfriend as a reason to take the scars he still has to kill the enemy in the most inhuman ways and so [[spoiler:Ian]] is forced to relive it in every sicking way.

* CueTheRain: Rain is used to signals the end of the current scene, also it's used [[spoiler:to awaken Ian after he "dies"]] at the end of the play.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Ian despite being a Angry White Man, he might have also [[spoiler:killed people or has a contract on his life]] has this when hearing the Soldier's stories, he says that nobody would want to read them.

...and then a soldier bursts into the hotel room, followed soon thereafter by a mortar shell. [[FromBadToWorse That's when things get ''really'' dark.]]

* AngryWhiteMan: Ian uses racist language, insults Cate's disabled brother and regularly writes articles to newspapers that caters to others of his kind.
* BasedOnATrueStory: The iconic [[spoiler:Eyeball]] scene was based on a scene from Among the Thugs which happened to a police officer. The shift of the play into the War Zone when the Soldier enters was based on the Bosnian War that Sarah saw on TV News while writing the play.

Blasted is a play preformed in 1995, written by Creator/SarahKane.
The play has three characters Ian, a bigoted middle aged journalist books a Hotel Room in Leeds, he invites Cate a meek, simple minded girl. It's clear he tries to seduce her showing his flaws. However the next day, Cate was [[spoiler:used by Ian]] but [[spoiler:she escapes]] as a Soldier enters in and the Leeds became a War zone where Ian is [[spoiler:maimed]] by the twisted mind of the Soldier.

The Play was iconic for it's original run in London when the critics shamed it for it's brutal depiction of Rape and Cannibalism the most iconic review by Jack Tinker calling it "disgusting feast of filth". Despite that reception several playwrights defenced it and since Sarah's death the play has been better received.

* MohsScaleofViolenceHardness: In the Theatre section Number 10.

* VindicatedByHistory: Even thought Blasted suffered the reception that it did in 1995, it survived in Europe and since Sarah's death has been seen as a decent play about the horrors of human nature that shapes theatre to this day.

* AngryWhiteMan: Ian uses racist language, insults Cate's disabled son and regularly writes articles to newspapers that caters to others of his kind.

* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:Ian]] rapes [[spoiler:Cate]] it's unseen but it still effects the story.
* SexualKarma:
* ShoutOut:
* {{Squick}}:
* SourOutsideSadInside:
* VindicatedByHistory:

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain:
* RapeAsDrama:

* MenDontCry: Ian is a victim of this
* {{Minimalism}}: The play does go from Naturalism
* MinimalistCast:
* MohsScaleofViolenceHardness:
* TheNothingAfterDeath:
* NoNameGiven:
* NotScreenedforCritics

* DownfallBySex: [[spoiler:Ian]] after failing to sweet talk [[spoiler:or Bully Cate]] into sex, rapes [[spoiler:her]] in the night but when [[sppiler:Cate]] awoke during the act, [[spoiler:Ian]] bit [[spoiler:her Vagina]], this happens between the scenes and in scene two it's still raw. No wonder the downfall happens.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Ian has this when hearing the Soldier's stories, he says that nobody would want to read them.

* EyeScream:
* HumansAreBastards:
* MeatVersusVeggies:
* MenDontCry:

* DownerEnding:
* DownfallBySex:
* DrivenToSuicide:
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
* ExtremeOmnivore:

* {{Minimalism}}:

* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Cate]] starts the play with a childlike innocent that has fits, of course to [[spoiler:Ian]] there is nothing [[spoiler:he won't do]] after the night's ordeal [[spoiler:Cate]] nearly shoots [[spoiler:Ian]] before another fit. After escaping the hotel and dealing with the War that affects the city
* ColdBloodedTorture:
* CriticalDissonance
* DownerEnding:

* AngryWhiteMan:
* BasedOnATrueStory:
* BreakTheCutie:

* SexualKama:

* ExtremeOmmicore:

* MeatVersusVeggie:

* Minimalism:

* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardress:

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillian:

* Squick:

!!The Following Play features the following Tropes:

The Play was iconic for it's original run in London when the critics shamed it for it's brutal depiction of Rape and Cannibalism the most iconic review by Jack Tinker calling it "disgusting feast of filth". Despite it several playwrights defenced it and since Sarah's death the play has been better received.