4.48 Psychosis

4.48 Psychosis, the last and most radical of the five plays written by the English playwright Sarah Kane (1971-1999), shows the self as a problematic entity that, shifting and struggling against its own limits, is transformed. The same fragmentation of the self and breaking of barriers that the psychotic mind experiences is literally reflected in the structure of the play.

This production brings to the stage a research for a pulsating theater. Inspired by the French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard's aesthetics of the sublime, the three directors — João Paulo Nascimento, Rodrigo Pavon and Katiana Gonçales Rangel — developed two concepts for the realization of this show: the pure gesture - the gesture without any meaning or association - and the musically composed words. The show works as a hybrid concert for actor, electroacoustic diffusion and light.

The playwright's words, with what remains of a semantic dimension, are delivered like mist (to the audience) in an indescribable state between sleep and wakefulness.