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This new edition of Barker's seminal text includes fragments, essays, thoughts, and poems on the nature of theatre that reject the constraints of "objective" academic theatre criticism. Rather, they explore the collision (and collusion) of intellect and artistry in the creative act. This book is more than a collection of essays: it is a cultural manifesto.

The latest collection of plays by Howard Barker, one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of our time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose.
This book contains the plays A Wounded Knife, At Her Age and Hers, In the Cloth Cathedral and After Naked.

Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose.
The latest volume in Oberon's Howard Barker series comprises the plays The Bite of the Night, Brutopia, The Forty, and Wonder and Worship in the Dying Ward.

In Slowly, decorum demands suicide. But, for some, the possibility of life is all too compelling. In a culture of conformity, it may not be up to the individual to decide. Hurts Given and Received with its provocative ideas, pungent poetic language, and savage wit build a thought-provoking allegory of the artist's relationship with society.

Claw concerns an underprivileged young man watching his so-called superiors. Ursula is Howard Barker's typically intriguing take on the legend of St. Ursula. He Stumbled is a fable concerning an anatomist and a dying king, and in The Love of a Good Man we witness the mass burial of the dead.

-Rarely is theatre so relentlessly rigorous, so remote and yet so ravishing.- London Times

-A verbally dazzling subversion of the biblical story of Lot and his wife.---Time Out (London)
A new play from internationally acclaimed dramatist Howard Barker. Sodom. The day before the city's total annihilation. Among the grimy tables of a run-down cafe, an angel tells Lot that God wants him to flee, before the city is obliterated. However, Lot's irresistible wife has other ideas... As the angel and Lot's wife embark on a dangerous game of seduction, cruelty and desire, we are drawn ever deeper into the dark and impenetrable forest that is the marriage between Lot and the...

Howard Barker is one of the most controversial British dramatists of his time. His plays unsettle, challenge, and expose. The contradictions of the humanist personality are explored in the following four plays: I Saw Myself; The Dying of Today; Found in the Ground; and The Road, the House, the Road.

A drama about death and its status in the world. Eko, seemingly on a whim, liquidates the entire medical profession, asserting that consolation - in the form of song - is a better way with sickness than drugs or surgery. She deliberately exposes her greatest poet Tot to a life of crime, poverty, and humiliation in order to extract from him his finest work.

Death, The One and the Art of Theatre is the latest collection of Barkers distinctive and revelatory philosophical musings on theatre. It is a stunning array of speculations, deductions, prose poems and poetic apercus that casts a unique and unflinching light on the nature of tragedy, eroticism, love and theatre. Exploring the juncture between aesthetics and metaphysics, the book looks at the human experience of love and death as life at its most intrinsically theatrical.

Howard Barker is an internationally renowned playwright whose works are regularly produced throughout...

The best known play from one of the United Kingdom's leading contemporary dramatists, reissued alongside a major revival at The National Theatre. Darkly humorous and provocative, Barker's play makes sixteenth-century Venice the setting for a fearless exploration of sexual politics and the timeless tension between personal ambition and moral responsibility.

(Uncle) Vanya, Barker's radical rewriting of Chekhov's classic, brought him more controversy than most of his other works put together. Interrogating not so much Chekhov's text as the use to which society has put it, Barker turns Vanya's defeat into victory and converts a play of sadness into a tragedy of desire.
A House of Correction is a meditation on cause and effect. Set on the eve of a war which may destroy a society, the seemingly arbitrary arrival of a messenger with a vital communication sets off an agonizing train of events in the lives of three desperate women....

Contains 'The Castle, ' 'Gertrude, ' 'The Cry, ' 'Animals in Paradise' and '13 Objects.'

The new play by international dramatist, poet and theorist, Howard Barker.

Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. The energy, poetic language and imagination of his plays have fixed them firmly in the international repertoire. This collection, his seventh, includes: Und, 12th Battle of Isonzo, 12 Encounters With a Prodigy, Christ's Dog and Learning Kneeling.

The loss of faith and cynical corruption of a few priests is unexpectedly challenged by the arrival of a young man with an unsullied and passionate belief in God. Howard Barker invents a world of shocking and universal metaphor in a place that might be anywhere struggling with the rise of extreme belief and the dangerous, distorted power it unleashes.

A series of interlocking narratives suffused by the European political and social experience of the twentieth century. Barker's epic work of sweeping landscapes, passionate characters, provocative imagery, powerful language and rich dark humor first amazed audiences twelve years ago. Now available in paperback for the first time, The Ecstatic Bible is full of echoes of past pain and comic contradiction.

Includes the plays The Last Supper, Seven Lears, Hated Nightfall and Wounds to the Face.