Sarah Kane was born in 1971 in Essex, in southeast England. She was the daughter of a journalist and spent most of the early years of her life as a born-again Christian with an evangelical bent. At seventeen, she made what colleague Mark Ravenhill describes as "a conscious decision to reject God." She chose to study drama at Bristol University, from which she graduated in 1992, and received a master's degree in playwriting from the University of Birmingham and began working as an associate for the Bush Theatre in London.
Kane wrote five plays over the course of her life. Her career began with tremendous controversy: her first play, Blasted, was first panned by mainstream reviewers and...
