Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. These plays are among his best-known works, and their energy, poetic la
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 f
A drama about death and its status in the world. Eko, seemingly on a whim, liquidates the entire medical profession, asserting that consolation ? in the form of song ? is a better way with sickness th
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 ima
Howard Barker's play for three actors and a corpse exemplifies both his dramatic method and his philosophical concerns. Rejecting all forms of social realism, his plays are celebrations of speech in t
The best known play from one of the United Kingdom's leading contemporary dramatists, reissued alongside a major revival at The National Theatre. Darkly humorous and provocative, Barker's play makes s
Set at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the English Reformation, The Seduction of Almighty God describes the spiritual ascendancy of an adolescent priest and the appalling discove
Howard Barker's tragedy of identity uses the idea of the frontier both actually and metaphorically. A state attempts to define its character by erecting a fence against outsiders, but it is violated b
"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. The day before Sodom's total annihilatio
Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. The latest volume in Oberon's Howard Barker series includes the plays T
The latest collection of plays by Howard Barker, one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of our time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose.This book contains the plays A Wounded K
Death, The One and the Art of Theatre is the latest collection of Barkers distinctive and revelatory philosophical musings on theatre. It is a stunning array of speculations, deductions, prose poems a
Howard Barker, author of over thirty plays, has long been an implacable foe of the liberal British establishment, and champion of radical theatre world-wide. His best-known plays include The Castle,
