BLACKBOX THEATER TO PREMIERE '4.48 PSYCHOSIS' BY SARA KANE HERE

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Blackbox Theater is planning to stage '4.48 Psychosis' by Sara Kane on May 3. '4.48 Psychosis' is the last play of Sara Kane that was completed shortly before she died and was performed in 2000, at the Royal Court, directed by James Macdonald. This, Kane's shortest and most fragmented theatrical work, dispenses with plot and character, and no indication is given as to how many actors were intended to voice the play. Written at a time when Kane was suffering from severe depression, it has been described by her fellow-playwright and friend David Greig as having as its subject the ‘psychotic mind.’ According to Greig, the title derives from the time — 4:48 a.m. — when Kane, in her depressed state, frequently woke in the morning. Blackbox stages the best plays from all around the world at the theater every Saturday. On the second Saturday of May, the Theater will stage Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco under direction of S.Myagmar. Rhinoceros premiered at the Theater on March 27, the World Theater Day. The theater will also perform on May 24 another play –the Chairs- by Romanian playwright Eugene Ionesco, who wrote mostly in French, and one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre. Beyond ridiculing the most banal situations, Ionesco's plays depict in a tangible way the solitude and insignificance of human existence. On May 17, the theater is planning to perform ‘Rashomon’ or ‘In a Grove’ play by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. The story recounts the encounter between a servant and an old woman in the dilapidated Rashōmon, the southern gate of the then-ruined city of Kyoto, where unclaimed corpses were sometimes dumped. The current name of the gate in the story, but not the plot, comes from the Noh play Rashōmon.