Sarah Kane was much berated for the graphic violence in her plays during her lifetime. Kane’s first play, Blasted, was a response to the conflict in Bosnia in the 1990s and this third play was part of an unrealised trilogy on war. A scene in which the Kinks’ song Days is piped into a torture cell, though tender, holds shades of “torture lite” in Guantánamo. View image in fullscreen Orwellian … Pearl Chanda and Jack Riddiford in Cleansed. View image in fullscreen A dance of pain … Jack Riddiford and Leo Bill in Cleansed.