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Howard Barker, author of over thirty plays, has long been an implacable foe of the liberal British establishment, and champion of radical theatre worl...
Includes the plays The Castle, Gertrude - The Cry, Animals in Paradise and 13 Objects. Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial ...
At Her Age and Hers; Landscape with Cries; Womanly; Four Dialogues; True Condition
The theatre of Howard Barker subverts myth and invents history in its pursuit of the meaning of individual integrity. Repudiating politics and asserti...
Includes the plays Victory, The Europeans, The Possibilities and Scenes From An Execution. Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controvers...
The tenth collection of plays by Howard Barker, one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of our time. His plays challenge, unsettle an...
The latest collection of Barker's philosophical musings on theatre, this volume includes speculations, deductions, prose poems & poetic apercus, which...
Includes the plays The Last Supper, Seven Lears, Hated Nightfall and Wounds to the Face Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial...
The latest volume in Oberon's Howard Barker series comprises the plays Und, The Twelfth Battle of Isonzo, 12 Encounters With a Prodigy, Christ's Dog a...
(Uncle) Vanya; A House of Correction; Let Me; Judith; Lot and His God
Includes the plays Judith, (Uncle) Vanya, A House of Correction, Let Me and Lot and His God Barker's radical rewriting of Chekhov's classic Uncle Vany...
I Saw Myself; The Dying of Today; Found in the Ground; The Road, The House, The Road
Includes the 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 significan...
Howard Barker’s theatre is characterized by its tragic scale and its distinctive way of exposing the unconscious resistances that underlie apparent ...
Commissioned to paint a vast canvas celebrating the triumphant Battle of Lepanto, the free-spirited Galactia creates instead a breathtaking scene of w...
1870; Dans le Palais Je; Deep Wives / Shallow Animals; Knowledge and a Girl
The latest collection of plays from one of the most celebrated, influential and studied playwrights in the English-speaking world. Howard Barker's pla...
Claw; Ursula; He Stumbled; The Love of a Good Man
Includes the plays Claw, Ursula, He Stumbled and The Love of a Good Man The plays in this volume range over twenty years, beginning with Barker's firs...
Howard Barker's alter-ego Eduardo Houth first materialised as the photographer of publicity images for Barker's theatre company The Wrestling School, ...
A young man rushes to reach the bedside of his dying father, but arrives too late. His younger brother was present at the death, but his attitude is s...
Harrowing and Uplifting Interviews; In the Cloth Cathedral; In the Depths of Dead Love; More No Still
The latest collection of plays by Howard Barker, one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of our time. Internationally renowned, his p...
A New Testament informed by the turmoil ofthe twentieth century, The Ecstatic Bible is a series of interlocking narratives based around the 100-year c...
The Bite of the Night; Brutopia; The Forty; Wonder and Worship in the Dying Ward
The Trojan legend and the character of Helen form the basis for The Bite of the Night. As with all Barker’s mythical and historical works, it is ove...
The Fence in its Thousandth Year was inspired by the long distance fence whilst it was under construction in the Gaza to separate the Palestinian and ...
Two new plays by Howard Barker Slowly As barbarians approach the palace of a decaying culture, four princesses debate their fate. Decorum demands suic...
"I came to the city. I saw the people were filthy. And those who were not filthy were still filthy..." Sodom. The day before the city's total annihila...
Stories for a Memoir
I’ve Always Loved Older Women is an intimate memoir written by Howard Barker. Born in 1924, he shares stories of growing up in rural Mississippi, th...
Set at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the English Reformation, The Seduction of Almighty God describes the spiritual ascendancy...
(4th edition)
This new edition of Barker’s seminal text Arguments for a Theatre outlinesthe theory and practice of his ‘Theatre of Catastrophe’. Author of ove...
Choices in Reaction
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A New Testament
Barker's speculation on the death of the prophet Lvov, whose waning powers can only be obscured by a literal enactment of transubstantiation, is a med...
Struggles to Love ; Judith : a Parting from the Body
The Cry ; And, Knowledge and a Girl : the Snow White Case
Drama. Barker's recent work, now firmly part of the international repertoire, is characterized by an ever deepening investment in language and metapho...
A Play for Marionettes
Scenes of Overcoming
A Hungarian artist emigrates first to the Soviet Union and finally to England, where he becomes a cartoonist on a London daily newspaper. As in Russia...
An Education