Sarah Kane's ultra-violent Cleansed left them reeling in the stalls at the National Theatre last week. Was that a rare exception on an otherwise tame British stage?Has British theatre shied away from violence and atrocity, as the director Katie Mitchell claimed last week? I'm not so sure. There's a long tradition of it " from Jacobean tragedians to the in-yer-face playwrights of the 1990s " but violence alone doesn't…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PM on February 27, 2016