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4.48 Psychosis

Live or die?

To take medicine or not?

Follow or not follow the desires of one's depressed mind?

Matilda Belin Larsson puts everything to the test in a raw and challenging version of Psykos 4.48. A raw, intimate and challenging performance about the most brutal consequences of depression. Two young women stuck in a vacuum where their darkest thoughts are aired, handled, explored.

The time is soon here The end is near.

They will die. 

Psychosis 4.48 by Sarah Kane is an uncompromising, fragmentary play that examines and highlights the complex reality of depression and its most brutal consequences. Since the 90s, the play has become mythical, both by its material and Kane as a person. Kane challenged his contemporaries and created a revolution in the in-yer-face genre. 

Matilda Belin Larssons directing brings the play to our present time and through a raw expression, the door is opened into young people's mental health and its relationship to commercialism. 

How do we deal with depression via social media? What happens when no one is listening? Are we really alone? Through movement, violence, spit, blood and sweat, life and death are portrayed to the extreme in a production that dares to take Kane's drama all the way.

The production had it’s premiere 8th of april 2024 at Värmeverket before touring several dates at Inkonst and Strindbergs Intima Teater. The production was also nominated to perform at the Small Season Festival at Theatre Labratory Sfumato in Sofia, Bulgaria. The production was one of four international performances of the festival.