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Howard Barker's Art of Theatre: Essays on His Plays, Poetry and Production Work

Hardback

Main Details

Title Howard Barker's Art of Theatre: Essays on His Plays, Poetry and Production Work
Authors and Contributors      Edited by David Rabey
Edited by Sarah Goldingay
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenrePlays, playscripts
ISBN/Barcode 9780719089299
ClassificationsDewey:822.92
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 31 October 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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. -- .

Author Biography

David Ian Rabey is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Aberystwyth University Sarah Goldingay is a Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter -- .