Death, The One and the Art of Theatre is the latest collection of Barkers distinctive and revelatory philosophical musings on theatre. It is a stunning array of speculations, deductions, prose poems and poetic aperçus that casts a unique and unflinching light on the nature of tragedy, eroticism, love and theatre. Exploring the juncture between aesthetics and metaphysics, the book looks at the human experience of love and death as life at its most intrinsically theatrical. Howard Barker is an internationally renowned playwright whose works are regularly produced throughout Europe and the US. He is widely known for his controversial explorations into contemporary tragedy and his anti-Brechtian focus on the irrational and the catastrophic. He is often credited as a major influence on the generation of playwrights that includes Sarah Kane. Death, The One and the Art of the Theatre is a profoundly unsettling and inspiring piece of writing and extends the challenge to orthodox morality that Barker first presented in Arguments for a Theatre, a challenge he describes as men and womens secret longing for the incomprehensible nature of pain.

Death, The One and the Art of Theatre

Literature & Fiction

Barker, Howard

Dramas & Plays

Routledge

Humor & Entertainment

The Hang of the Gaol

Riverrun Pr

No End of Blame

A Passion in Six Days: Downchild (Playscript)

Crimes in Hot Countries/Fair Slaughter (Playscript)

The Power of the Dog

With Barker's "The Castle" and "Scenes From an Execution."

"The Castle" / "Scenes from an Execution" (Playscript 110)

John Calder/Riverrun Press

1985, paperback, published simultaneously in Great Britain and the United States, London Edition, John Calder ltd. American Edition, RiverRun Pr., NY, 69 pages. Poetry collection.

Don't Exaggerate: (Desire and Abuse)

Women Beware Women: Playscript 111

Middleton, Thomas

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