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The book came looking like it was run over by a truck 100 times. The book is all distorted and bent with marks from what I assume is from it being run across the ground horrible condition good story.

This is one of the best plays I have ever read in my entire life ... everything is so well executed and thoughtful ... the author's allegorical eye is amazing and will hypnotize readers ... prepare to be dazzled ...

Sat down immediately after getting it and read it straight through in forty minutes. I had no idea what to expect, and once I finished I literally could not move or speak for ten, fifteen minutes because of how crazy this book is.Then, two weeks later my brother performed a staged reading of this at a theatre with three other people and I had the same reaction.10/10 because it's fantastic but I'm never reading this play ever ever ever again.

...however, if you enjoy a well written and thought-provoking piece of theatre, this debut from Sarah Kane should more than fit the bill. Dark, twisted, and worth the shock.

Wild play. Read it for class. Actually enjoyed it though!

Sarah Kane's work is harsh, yet poetic. Her voice will be dearly missed.

Briskly sloughing off all but the necessary history of two people's past's, and keeping the present hooded and unknown, Sarah Kane puts people together under circumstances that press from multiple directions, and squeeze them until they are as compact, as primal, or as insane as humanly possible.Ian and Cate know each other. They were together before and now, are together again, in a posh hotel room in Leeds. He's older. She's more confused and goes through spells, possibly seizures. He's a reporter, who carries a gun and is dying. She can't help but lead him on. In comes the Soldier, and the War and the vile difference between two people feeling each other out while playing sexual politics, and someone beyond limits and feelings and hopes.To say this is a shocking play is an understatement. It is very violent, sexual and disturbing. There is nudity, much alcohol/smoking, gun threats, rape, oral sex, torture, cannabalism, masturbation....And it's powerful. Beyond the point of this play lies a no man's land.

Kane's masterly dramatic work in simple, clear presentation.

Very good play by a brilliant british playwright

Daughter read this for Uni.Very thought provoking she said.

I loved the commentary with the play, it helped me to understand the play better. As well as why Kane choose to write in the way she did.

Needed this play as I was studying it at University. Exactly what it says.