David Ian Rabey is one of the most explosive, pioneering, and erotic playwrights ever to emerge from Wales. "Lovefuries" features three of his performance texts that flaut national and personal pressure to keep silent, committing instead to explore the shocking resurgences of life that break through grief. These plays tackle such issues as the nature of the feminine, surviving sexual abuse, and the boundaries of human language and physicality. This unforgettable collection will introduce American audiences to one of the most gifted contemporary playwrights working in Britain.Praise for David...
David Ian Rabey is one of the most explosive, pioneering, and erotic playwrights ever to emerge from Wales. "Lovefuries" features three of his perform...
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 "...
Theatre, Time and Temporality is the first book-length exploration of the subject of temporality within theater and performance. David Ian Rabey brings in sources ranging from medieval and Renaissance theater to contemporary performances--in addition to recent writings from physics, philosophy, and psychology--to analyze ways that time can be presented, communicated, and transformed in the theater. How do we experience time in theater, and how can that experience be altered or manipulated? Rabey's analysis and exploration will spark discussion among students and scholars of drama, as...
Theatre, Time and Temporality is the first book-length exploration of the subject of temporality within theater and performance. David Ian Rabe...