by Mark Cofta
[ theater ]
British playwright Sarah Kane might be best known for how her brief career ended — with her 1999 suicide at age 28 — but her notoriety was assured by her controversial 1995 debut, Blasted, one of only five plays she wrote. Now Luna Theater Co. artistic director Gregory Scott Campbell revives the play first condemned as a sensationalist taboo-breaker for its starkly violent vision of a war-torn England and three lost souls clawing for survival. Belated praise for Blasted emerged after a 2001 revival, when critics compared her work to expressionist drama, Jacobean tragedy and Samuel Beckett. Better late than never.
Through Feb. 27, $12.50-$32, Upstairs at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St., 866-811-4111, lunatheater.org.


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