The script is 43 pages of broken-up text, angry or futile speeches alternating with lists of numbers and types of medication, repetition (“flicker punch slash dab”), word association (“irrelevant, irreverent”) and lines that wind down the page like concrete poetry. There are four references to 4.48am as the waking time when despondency, clarity or sleep arrive.
4.48 Psychosis at the Royal Court Theatre review: a hard, harsh watch illuminated by flashes of poetic clarity
