Barker has been acclaimed as 'England's greatest living dramatist' in The Times and as 'the Shakespeare of our age' by Sarah Kane. His uniquely stylish work brings together startlingly original forms of classical discipline, moral ruthlessness and catastrophic eroticism. This study considers the full range of his theatrical achievements.
Barker has been acclaimed as 'England's greatest living dramatist' in The Times and as 'the Shakespeare of our age' by Sarah Kane. His uniquely stylis...
Director-dramatist Howard Barker is a restlessly prolific, compulsively controversial, provocative multi-media artist.
Beyond his internationally acclaimed theatrical productions for his award-winning theatre company The Wrestling School, Barker is also a poet, a painter whose work has been exhibited internationally, and a philosophical essayist on the power of art to provoke moral speculation, and on the theatricality of the human being in crisis. In France, his drama was the subject of a major retrospective season, 2009-10, comprising no less than seven theatrical...
Director-dramatist Howard Barker is a restlessly prolific, compulsively controversial, provocative multi-media artist.
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.
This new edition of Barker's seminal text includes fragments, essays, thoughts, and poems on the nature of theatre that reject the constraints of "...
