Howard Barker's art of theatre
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Howard Barker's art of theatre

Essays on his plays, poetry and production work

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eBook - ePub

Howard Barker's art of theatre

Essays on his plays, poetry and production work

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9780719089299
eBook ISBN
9781526111227
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Asian Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Notes on contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Abbreviations and references
  9. 1 Introduction: the ultimate matter of style
  10. 2 Performance within performance: Howard Barker and the acted life – some thoughts
  11. 3 Unearthly powers of invention: speech, report and repetition in recent Wrestling School productions
  12. 4 Reinventing ‘grand narratives’: Barker’s challenge to postmodernism
  13. 5 Institutions, icons and the body in Barker’s plays, 1977–86
  14. 6 Access to the body: the theatre of revelation in Beckett, Foreman and Barker
  15. 7 ‘Not nude but naked’: nakedness and nudity in Barker’s drama
  16. 8 Places of punishment: surveillance, reason and desire in the plays of Howard Barker
  17. 9 Barker, criticism and the philosophy of the ‘Art of Theatre’
  18. 10 Staging Barker in France 2009
  19. 11 21 for 21: a breakthrough moment in international theatre-making?
  20. 12 I Saw Myself: artist and critic meet in the mirror
  21. 13. ‘His niece or his sister’: genealogical uncertainties and literary filiation in Barker’s Gertrude – The Cry
  22. 14 History in the age of fracture: catastrophic time in Barker’s The Bite of the Night
  23. 15 The Dying of Today and the meta-stases of language: from history to tale to play to mise-en-scène
  24. 16 ‘The substrata of experience’: Barker’s poetry, 1988–2008
  25. 17 Reading Howard Barker’s pictorial art
  26. 18 Howard Barker’s paintings, poems and plays: ‘in the deed itself’, or the triple excavation of the unchangeable
  27. 19 Memories of paintings in Howard Barker’s theatre
  28. 20 The sunless garden of the unconsoled: some destinations beyond catastrophe
  29. 21 Howard Barker in dialogue with David Ian Rabey, City University, New York, 10 May 2010
  30. Appendix: Howard Barker: chronology and further reading
  31. Index