The Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court Theatre will stage a new co-production of Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon July 10-27, 2025. James Macdonald (Waiting for Godot) is set to direct the work, which follows an unnamed protagonist grappling with severe depression.
Original cast members Daniel Evans, Jo McInnes, and Madeleine Potter will reprise their performances from the play's 2000 premiere. Evans currently serves as co-Artistic Director of The Royal Shakespeare Company.
The final performance of the limited engagement will take place at 4:48 AM July 27. The event will also include a post-show breakfast and discussion with the cast and creative team.
“Sarah Kane’s final work cemented her legacy as a seminal playwright of British theatre," Evans and co-Artistic Director Tamara Harvey said in a joint statement. "25 years on from the play’s premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, this new production of 4.48 Psychosis represents a landmark moment for the RSC in 2025. To be staging this era-defining work in The Other Place, a theatre synonymous with radical new productions, is particularly thrilling. To mark this moment in time, we are also offering Stratford audiences the unique opportunity to experience the final performance of this play at 4.48am in the morning, at the break of dawn."
"I had the privilege of first working with Sarah Kane on Cleansed in 1998," added Evans. "Within two years, I was back in the rehearsal room alongside Madeleine Potter and Jo McInnes, rehearsing her final play. I think it’s safe to say we all felt the weight of responsibility. To be back in that same rehearsal room, 25 years on, reunited with Director James Macdonald and the original creative team is both a tremendous honour and a joy, knowing that new generations of audiences will have the opportunity to experience this complex, vital and astonishing play through a new lens in 2025."
Joining Macdonald on the creative team will be set and costume designer Jeremy Herbert, lighting designer Nigel Edwards, and sound designer Paul Arditti.
