"Blasted" is Sarah Kane's first full-length play, which opened in 1995 and was the sensation of that year's theater season, making front-page headlines and outraging some critics who thought her premise that there was a connection between a rape in a Leeds hotel room and the hellish devastation of civil war was simply an attempt to shock audiences. The questions raised in this play about violence are at the heart of Kane's writing.

A play that contains an uncompromising depiction of rape, torture, and violence in a society at war with itself.