Author: Barker, Howard
Edition #3; Hardback; Book; 3 Line Drawings
240 pages
Published: October 1997
Manchester University Press
ISBN: 0719052491

Howard Barker, author of over thirty plays, has long been implacable foe of the liberal British establishment and champion of radical theater world-wide. His best-known plays include The Castle, Scenes from on Execution and The Possibilities. All of his plays are emotionally highly charged, intellectually stimulating, and far removed from the theatrical conventions of what he terms Establishment Theater. These fragments, essays, thoughts and poems on the nature of theatre similarly reject the constraints of objective academic theater criticism. More than a collection of essays, this book is a cultural manifesto for Barker's own theater of catastrophe.3rd.edition. Howard Barker does not accept the conventions of what he terms The Establishment Theatre. These writings on the nature of theatre reject the constraints of objective academic theatre criticism, but explore the collision and collusion of intellect and artistry in the creative act.