4:48 Psychosis - Part 1 - Sarah Kanes Note

Part 1 of an 8-part series of videos from a talk back interview with Dr. Erica Essary after a screening of the play, 4:48 Psychosis written by Sarah Kane.

This is a question & answer session, transcript follows:

Audience Question:

Sarah Kane the playwright did commit suicide a little under a year after she wrote the play and gave it to her agent to be produced.

Do you find that in some ways, how do you take it that she wrote it on a piece of paper that she gave it to someone to produce, that's weird, I just want to know what your perspective is. When people say, so why is she doing something like that in your opinion?


Dr. Erica Essary:

In a certain sense, I feel like, that was her note, the play was her note. That was her goodbye, and she wanted people to know about her struggle, and she, her mind, I feel, was made up, she had made her choice, well ahead of time, she know what she was going to do.

This is such a difficult part of suicide to talk about that. We don't say that... there are people, many, many people out there that I believe that we reach, we help, that are feeling suicidal, that are depressed, that are going through a lot, and there are so many people that I see in and out of my life in both my personal and professional life that have struggled with this, and I am so grateful to everyone that continues to go on for one more day, no matter how hard it is. I also know, that sometimes, it's too much for some people, and I don't blame them, and I don't feel that blaming them or maligning people for having made this choice helps anyone.

But I understand the anger of survivors and someone having left their lives and felt like, they feel abandoned, of course they do, the survivors feel abandoned. There is a place for that rage and anger. When I hear about these things happening, my first reaction is not anger, it is, it was that bad, it was that bad for that person at that time, that they did not feel that there was another way out and they made that choice in that moment.

I of course wish they had made another one, but sometimes we have to live with the fallout of that, as we live with the death of this author who made amazing works, and of course we think about what else could she have done then. Because I am sure she would have made many more amazing things had she lived, but we have what we have from her and I think we honour her by appreciating it and performing it in these plays and keeping her work alive.

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