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Howard Barker (born 28 June 1946) is a British playwright, screenwriter and writer of radio drama, painter, poet, and essayist, writing predominantly on playwriting and the theatre.
Apr 13, 2016 · A collection of 21 essays by critics, scholars and practitioners who explore the prolific and provocative work of the British playwright, poet and director Howard Barker. The book covers his themes, styles, influences, challenges and achievements in theatre, as well as his philosophy and aesthetics.
Learn about the life and work of Howard Barker, a contemporary British playwright and poet known for his experimental and political theatre. Explore his plays, poems, essays, interviews and more on his official website.
Sep 29, 2020 · This chapter discusses the biographical landmarks of Howard Baker and his career in theatre. A poet at heart, Barker places language at the centre of a new dramatic form better adapted to express the complexity of the modern man: the Theatre of Catastrophe.
Howard Barker's theatre has always been dealt with as a characteristically distinctive kind with respect to the playwright's formulation of his self-crafted dramatic genre 'Theatre of Catastrophe' whose main principles were listed in.
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Barker’s plays of the seventies and mid-eighties dramatise the machinations of the state in recognisably English social and cultural institutions, environments and landscapes, such as burnt-out prisons, abandoned hospitals, bank vaults, mausoleums, battlefields and castles.
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This new edition of Barker’s seminal text Arguments for a Theatre outlinesthe theory and practice of his ‘Theatre of Catastrophe’. Author of over thirty plays, Howard Barker has long...
