“At the time of Kane’s death, Kenyon was quoted as saying that Kane was an artist who suffered from ‘existential despair’. But, as fellow Royal Court playwright Anthony Neilson pointed out, the same depression affects both artists and check-out girls, so why ‘canonise one and stigmatise the other’? Mental illness is no respecter of professions.”
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- From Sarah Kane by Aleks Sierz (via hurryuppleaseitstime
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