Sarah Kane's suicide note receives a blistering performance from a Polish theatre company

Robert Dawson Scott, THE TIMES

Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis also prefigures the writer's death, in her case by her own hand. In many ways the play is one big suicide note. But with an electrifying central performance by the leading Polish actress Magdalena Cielecka and an imaginative production from Grzegorz Jarzyna and the TR Warszawa company, this is no gentle journey into that good night. Kane herself might have been considered a writer without frontiers; her work has been performed more in the rest of Europe than it has in Britain. Certainly this gripping production seems to have a far better handle on why this is a play, as opposed to Kane's laceratingly honest notes on her own psychiatric condition, than some of the self-consciously poetic British versions.