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Howard Barker
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Arguments for a Theatre,
Barker: Plays Eight,
Barker: Plays Five,
Barker: Plays Four,
Barker: Plays One,
Barker: Plays Seven,
Barker: Plays Six,
Barker: Plays Three,
Blok/Eko,
Dead Hands,
The Ecstatic Bible,
The Fence in its Thousandth Year,
Howard Barker: Plays Eleven,
Howard Barker: Plays Nine,
Howard Barker: Plays Ten,
Howard Barker: Plays Twelve,
Howard Barker: Plays Two,
Lot and His God,
Scenes from an Execution,
The Seduction of Almighty God,
Slowly/Hurts Given and Received,
A Style and Its Origins
Biography
Howard Barker is an internationally renowned dramatist, whose first plays were performed at the Royal Court and by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Since 1992 his work has been presented by his own company The Wrestling School. Barker’s theatre is characterized by its poetic, non-naturalistic form and inhabits worlds of contradiction, suffering and sexual passion. Barker is also a poet and theorist of theatre, whose ‘Theatre of Catastrophe’ defines a new form of tragedy for our times.