4.48 Psychosis premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in June 2000.
"There's nothing else like it in the language."—The Times
"As compact and beautiful as a diamond in structure—and yet the mood it inspires is as black as coal."—Time Out
"The beauty and rawness—the combination of unprocessed honesty and meticulous craft—remains as striking as ever; Kane's power to take material beyond endurance and shape it, burnish it, laugh at it, dominate it with her art."-Scotsman
"Kane wrote simply and starkly about the world she saw around her... a mature and vividly theatrical response to the pain of living."—Guardian