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.
Claw concerns an underprivileged young man watching his so-called superiors. Ursula is Howard Barker's typically intriguing take on t...
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.
Howard Barker is one of the most controversial British dramatists of his time. His plays unsettle, challenge, and expose. The contradictions of the...
(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....
(Uncle) Vanya, Barker's radical rewriting of Chekhov's classic, brought him more controversy than most of his other works put together. Interro...
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.
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 ...
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.
Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. The energy, poetic la...
-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...
-A verbally dazzling subversion of the biblical story of Lot and his wife.---Time Out (London) A new play from internationally acclaimed dr...
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.
A series of interlocking narratives suffused by the European political and social experience of the twentieth century. Barker's epic work of sweeping ...
