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Blasted: A Study of Violence and Trauma by Selin Aygün is a document available to read on EtoBox.

Sarah Kane was an English playwright known for her plays dealing with themes of pain, torture, and death. Her first play, Blasted, caused controversy due to its graphic depictions of violence including rape, cannibalism, and torture. The play is set in a hotel room and gradually transitions from naturalism to a nightmarish war zone. Kane intended the play to draw parallels between domestic violence and the war in Bosnia by "blasting apart" the realistic first scene. While fiercely attacked in the British pr

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Selin Aygün

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