Isabelle Huppert

4.48 Psychose

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Claude Régy, Director
Sarah Kane, Playwright
Performed by Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Watkins

“The overriding emotions one feels watching Huppert are admiration for her sheer guts and wonderment at how accomplished and powerful an actress she is.”
— The Financial Times

Last year’s unshakable UCLA Live presentation of playwright Sarah Kane’s final opus featured the original director and cast. Now one of cinema’s foremost purveyors of “women on the edge,” the great French actress Isabelle Huppert, takes on Kane’s wrenching diary of depression. “The pairing up of these two free radicals makes for volatile chemistry, and the results on stage promise to be highly explosive” [Paris Voice]. Exploding on the scene in 1995 with her tortured but poetically brilliant work, Kane came to be recognized as an important new voice in British theater. Filled with startling moments of raw emotion, intense brutality and utter tenderness, 4.48 Psychosis was completed just months before Kane took her own life in 1999 at age 28.

Performed in French with English surtitles

Supported by Etant donnés: the French-American Fund for the Performing Arts, a Program of FACE and the National Endowment for the Arts

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