Kane struggled with severe depression for many years and was twice voluntarily admitted to the Maudsley Hospital in London. Before that, she had worked briefly as literary associate for the Bush Theatre, London. For a year she was writer-in-residence for Paines Plough, a theatre company promoting new writing, where she actively encouraged other writers. Kane wrote consistently throughout her adult life. She also always attributed Jeremy Weller's Mad as 'the one piece of theatre that changed my life.' After attending Shenfield High School, she studied drama at Bristol University, graduating in 1992, and went on to take an MA course in play writing at the University of Birmingham, led by the playwright David Edgar. Later, however, she rejected those beliefs. Kane's published work consists of five plays, the short film ' Skin' and two newspaper articles for The Guardian.Д«orn in Brentwood, Essex, and raised by evangelical parents, Kane was a committed Christian in adolescence. The further we get away from that in time, the more un-typical she seems to be'. Sierz originally called Kane 'the quintessential in-yer-face writer of the ' but later remarked in 2009 that although he initially 'thought she was very typical of the new writing of the middle 1990s. The critic Aleks Sierz saw her work as part of a confrontational style and sensibility of drama termed In-Yer-Face theatre. Kane herself, as well as scholars of her work, such as Graham Saunders, identify some of her inspirations as expressionist theatre and Jacobean tragedy. They are characterised by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form and, in her earlier work, the use of extreme and violent stage action.

She is known for her plays that deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture-both physical and psychological-and death.

3.1 First suicide attempt and subsequent hospitalisation.

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