4.48 Psychosis

This was Sarah Kane’s final play prior to her suicide in 1999 at the age of twenty-eight, and the title refers to the apocryphal time at which most suicides take place. Kane rose to prominence in London as a kind of theatrical counterpart to that city’s “YBA” art scene: Her first work, Blasted, received an eponymous treatment when one critic described it as “a disgusting feast of filth.” 4.48 Psychosis, no less controversial, has been characterized as a multilayered description of what it’s like to be pulled toward ceasing to be. The Royal Court Theater, Britain’s leading national company, brings its acclaimed production to the Guthrie Lab for its U.S. premiere. A first-date play? Probably not. Maybe a last. 700 N. 1st St., Minneapolis; 612-377-2224; www.guthrietheater.org