Collected Plays Volume 1

Häftad bok. Calder Publishing/Riverrun Press. 1990.

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En samling av Barkers pjäser:
Claw
No End of Blame
Victory
The Castle
Scenes from an Execution

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Howard Barker has emerged in the last decade as a dramatist of international stature. His theory and practice of theatre have made him a controversial figure, whilst his work has undergone constant change and development. This collected edition covers a range of his theatre from 1975 to the mid-1980s, and includes plays premiered both in anti-establishment theatres such as Charles Marowitz's Open Space and in national institutions like the Royal Shakespeare Company.

From Claw (1975), a savage and comic journey among the English poor and the English powerful, to The Castle (1985), whose tragic explorations of pain, absence, and sexuality, mark it out as one of the most significant plays of its decade. Howard Barker both re-works and re-defines the qualities which characterize his most individual voice — the power of a language both raw and poetic, the insistence on the imaginative as against the naturalistic world, and the refusal of simple, dialectical solutions to the dilemmas of private and social life. His meditations in a play like Victory (1983) refuse easy categorization whilst affirming the triumph of the human spirit in times of chaos, whilst his observations of the horrors and ecstasies of the artistic life in No End to Blame (1981) and the award winning Scenes from an Execution (1984) reveal a profound engagement with the moral responsibilities of the artist in society.

All the plays in this volume have been performed in Europe, America and Australia. They have also variously been broadcast, filmed and televised.