Playwright Sarah Kane killed herself at the age of 28 shortly after writing her fifth play, which offers a harrowing taste of what it’s like to live with, and die from, depression. Now two decades later, composer Philip Venables has turned 4.48 Psychosis into an opera, and the Royal Opera of London has brought it to New York as part of the seventh annual Prototype Festival. The adaptation is remarkable in its fealty to Kane’s disturbing vision, and also adds a new dimension.
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