4.48 PSYCHOSIS - Erasmus Mackenna
Step into the world of 4.48 PSYCHOSIS, the latest and final Frascati Productions performance by creator Erasmus Mackenna. In a lonely and manic monologue, surrounded by a violent landscape of love and loss, someone obsessively searches for tenderness and clarity. Plagued by physical, psychological and social dysphoria, haunted by ghosts and paralysed by shame and anger, they mourn the past, the present and, above all, the lost future.
4.48 PSYCHOSIS exposes the struggle of an individual trying to create a coherent self-image in a crumbling existence. How do you build a life as a human being when your fellow humans seem obsessed with orchestrating their own demise? Is this a world in which it is possible to live without lying about who you are? And where do you find love when you see yourself turning to ashes?
Sarah Kane wrote 4.48 PSYCHOSIS at the end of the twentieth century, when the Western values that had shaped an entire generation began to collapse. It is her last and most vulnerable text – a web of intimate fragments in which a person's life simultaneously unravels and blossoms in a manic fashion.
Erasmus Mackenna stages this infamous classic from the chaos of the present moment: through his lens of social confusion, fear, disgust and horror, and fuelled by personal experiences, hauntological theory, the history of genocide and apocalyptic noise and drone music.
📆 Tuesday 17 to Saturday 28 February
✨ Premiere on Thursday 19 February
