Blasted at GableStage a Lovely Yet Hard to Watch Elegy for Love

Sarah Kane's controversial Blasted is one of the loveliest and hardest to watch plays you'll ever see, an elegy for love in a world rent by violence and the corruption of power. "I am dying to make love!" cried one character, but he can't — armed and dangerous, all he...

By Brandon K. Thorp

March 4, 2010

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Sarah Kane's controversial Blasted is one of the loveliest and hardest to watch plays you'll ever see, an elegy for love in a world rent by violence and the corruption of power. "I am dying to make love!" cried one character, but he can't — armed and dangerous, all he can do is rape. Todd Allen Durkin turns in a career-high performance, flanked by Betsy Graver and Erik Fabregat, who add shades of soul to a play that was already full of it.

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