Barker: Plays Six (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Oberon Modern Plays
Antal sidor
334
Utgivningsdatum
2010-12-15
Förlag
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensioner
208 x 130 x 23 mm
Vikt
431 g
ISBN
9781840029611

Barker: Plays Six

(Uncle) Vanya; A House of Correction; Let Me; Judith; Lot and His God

av Howard Barker
Häftad,  Engelska, 2010-12-15
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"(Uncle) Vanya," Barker's radical rewriting of Chekhov's classic, brought him more controversy than most of his other works put together. Interrogating not so much Chekhov's text as the use to which society has put it, Barker turns Vanya's defeat into victory and converts a play of sadness into a tragedy of desire. "A House of Correction" is a meditation on cause and effect. Set on the eve of a war which may destroy a society, the seemingly arbitrary arrival of a messenger with a vital communication sets off an agonizing train of events in the lives of three desperate women. Few works of drama can have plumbed the depths of solitude and rage that characterize "Let Me," a nightmare set on the frontiers of the Roman Empire during the barbarian invasions. Biblical narratives serve as the origin of two shorter works, of which "Judith" is a contemporary classic of cultural conflict, a reinterpretation of the status of the heroine in Israel's war of survival against the Assyrians. "In Lot and His God," the imminent destruction of Sodom simultaneously licenses the moral decay of an angel and the erotic epiphany of an adored wife.
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Howard Barker is an internationally renowned dramatist. There has been a recent resurgence of presentations of his plays in Britain, with particularly acclaimed productions at the Arcola and the Hackney Empire. He has a sizable following on the European mainland. Barker is also a poet and theorist of theatre, whose "Theatre of Catastrophe, " has defined a new form of tragedy for our times and has had a significant impact in the fields of literary and theatre studies.

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