Death, the One and the Art of Theatre

Death, the One and the Art of Theatre PDF Author: Howard Barker
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415349864
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Book Description
The latest collection of Barker's philosophical musings on theatre, this volume includes speculations, deductions, prose poems & poetic apercus, which cast a unique light on the nature of tragedy, eroticism, love & theatre.

Death, the One and the Art of Theatre

Death, the One and the Art of Theatre PDF Author: Howard Barker
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415349864
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Book Description
The latest collection of Barker's philosophical musings on theatre, this volume includes speculations, deductions, prose poems & poetic apercus, which cast a unique light on the nature of tragedy, eroticism, love & theatre.

Howard Barker's art of theatre

Howard Barker's art of theatre PDF Author: David I Rabey
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526111225
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 391

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Director-dramatist Howard Barker is a restlessly prolific, compulsively controversial and provocative multi-media artist. Beyond his internationally performed and acclaimed theatrical productions, and his award-winning theatre company The Wrestling School, he is also a poet, a painter whose work has been exhibited internationally, and a philosophical essayist cognisant of the unique power of art to provoke moral speculation, and of the distinctive theatricality of the human being in times of crisis. This collection of essays provides international perspectives on the full range of Barker’s achievements, theatrical and otherwise, and argues for their unique importance and urgency at the forefront of several genres of provocative modern art. It includes an interview with the artist and an essay by Barker himself.

Theatre Games

Theatre Games PDF Author: Clive Barker
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408125196
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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A practical guide to using theatre games for actor training which includes a DVD with original footage of the author putting the techniques into action.

Theatre of Catastrophe

Theatre of Catastrophe PDF Author: Karoline Gritzner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783192313
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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Fifteen essays on the style, language and vision of one of Britain’s most influential and controversial playwrights. Focusing on different aspects of what Barker has called the Theatre of Catastrophe, an international range of academics offer illuminating interpretations of his work. Includes analyses of the political, moral and historical aspects of his writing, its poetry and eroticism, its depiction of the figure of the artist, and Barker’s writing in performance. Includes contributions from Elisabeth Angel-Perez, Mary Karen Dahl, Helen Iball, Christine Kiehl, Charles Lamb, Chris Megson, Roger Owen, Dan Rebellato, James Reynolds, Elizabeth Sakellaridou, Andy Smith, Liz Tomlin, Heiner Zimmerman.

Gertrude

Gertrude PDF Author: Howard Barker
Publisher: Calder Publications Limited
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Drama. Barker's recent work, now firmly part of the international repertoire, is characterized by an ever deepening investment in language and metaphor; a poet of the stage, his texts resonate at many levels of the European cultural past and illuminate its present. The plays in this volume review the roles of two legendary women in fiction--Gertrude, Hamlet's mother and Snow White's Wicked Stepmother--placing them at centre stage and offering a fresh interpretation of their attitudes and actions.

Arguments for a Theatre

Arguments for a Theatre PDF Author: Howard Barker
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719039980
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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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 world-wide. His best-known plays include The Castle, Scenes from an Execution and The Possibilities. All of his plays are emotionally highly charged, intellectually stimulating and far removed from the theatrical conventions of what he terms 'the Establishment Theatre'. These fragments, essays, thoughts and poems on the nature of theatre likewise reject the constraints of 'objective' academic theatre criticism. 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 for Barker's own 'Theatre of Catastrophe'.

Howard Barker's Theatre: Wrestling with Catastrophe

Howard Barker's Theatre: Wrestling with Catastrophe PDF Author: James Reynolds
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408184257
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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Howard Barker and The Wrestling School have been seen as marginal to the major concerns of British theatre, problematic in their staging and challenging in the ideas they explore. Yet Barker's writing career spans six decades, he is the only living writer to have been accorded an entire season with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and The Wrestling School produces theatre of such a striking quality that it earned continuous Arts Council funding for nearly 20 years. Wrestling with Catastrophe challenges existing ways of reading Barker's theatre practice and plays and provides new ways into his work. It brings together conversations with theatre makers from in and outside The Wrestling School, with first-hand accounts of the company's practice, and a selection of critical readings. The book's combining of testimony from key Wrestling School practitioners with alternative practical perspectives, and with analysis by both established and emerging scholars, ensures that a spectrum of understanding emerges that is rich in both breadth and depth. In its consideration of the full range of Barker's aesthetic concerns - including text, direction, design, acting, narrative form, poetry, appropriation, painting, photography, electronic media, technology, puppetry, and theatre space - the volume makes a radical re-evaluation of Barker's theatre possible.

Waste

Waste PDF Author: Harley Granville-Barker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Scenes from an Execution

Scenes from an Execution PDF Author: Howard Barker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 184943557X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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Commissioned to paint a vast canvas celebrating the triumphant Battle of Lepanto, the free-spirited Galactia creates instead a breathtaking scene of war-torn carnage. In her fierce determination to stay true to herself, she alienates the authorities and faces incarceration. Her younger lover Carpeta is approached to take over and seizes the assignment for himself. Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution makes sixteenth-century Venice the setting for a fearless exploration of sexual politics and the timeless tension between personal ambition and moral responsibility, between the patron's demands and the artist's autonomy. Art is opinion, and opinion is the source of all authority. This edition includes a new essay by Howard Barker, entitled The Sunless Garden of the Unconsolled: Some Destinations Beyond Catastrophe

The Bite of the Night

The Bite of the Night PDF Author: Howard Barker
Publisher: Calder Publications Limited
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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