The Scenography Of Howard Barker

Author : Lara Maleen Kipp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429668234

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The Scenography of Howard Barker by Lara Maleen Kipp Pdf

Influential contemporary British playwright and director Howard Barker has been engaging with the scenography of the Wrestling School’s productions since 1998. Despite this active involvement in the design of set, costume, lighting, and sound, no in-depth published study on this aspect of his work exists to date. This monograph therefore offers the first comprehensive and detailed analysis of Barker’s scenographic practice. Combining aesthetic analysis of play texts and production records with original interview materials, this book presents the first full-length foray into Barker’s scenography. It features extracts from conversations with designers working with Barker, and with Barker himself. In addition, it presents the first printed versions of select set and costume designs by Barker. With the first fully detailed analysis of Barker’s scenographic work, this book will be a vital read for scholars and postgraduates of Barker Studies, contemporary British and European drama, theatre, and scenography.

Author : Charles Lamb
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : 0415315301

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The Theatre of Howard Barker by Charles Lamb Pdf

Including new interviews, a revised introduction, an updated bibliography and a full production chronology, this second, fully revised edition of an acclaimed study sets out to make emotional sense of Barker's characters and their interactions.

Author : Howard Barker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350230330

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Howard Barker: Plays Eleven by Howard Barker Pdf

The latest collection of plays from one of the most celebrated, influential and studied playwrights in the English-speaking world. Howard Barker's plays continue to challenge, unsettle and expose. Barker's theatre has never sought to reproduce the real world on stage, but 1870 is the first of his plays to be set in Hell. An executed traitor, whose passion for betrayal is akin to a faith, meets other victims of that terrible year in a sordid room. Inevitably they are inspected by God, but in a shape none could have predicted and only he can delight in. In Dans Le Palais Je, Barker's nihilistic landowner at once establishes a different tone as she survives waves of social unrest and outbids the cruel with her own cruelty. In this chaos, she relies on the delivery of obscure but meaningful words which arrive in sealed envelopes to prepare her for a succession of ordeals. Deep Wives and Knowledge and a Girl are short pieces, firmly established in the European theatre repertoire. In the first, a revolutionary movement called the Alterations puts a rich woman in the hands of her servants. The body, and its political meanings, is at the heart of this uncanny work, written for two actresses and a mechanical dog. In Knowledge and a Girl, Barker reinterprets the Snow White fable from the perspective of the Stepmother.

Author : Howard Barker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781849433631

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Barker: Plays Three by Howard Barker Pdf

Includes the plays Claw, Ursula, He Stumbled and The Love of a Good Man The plays in this volume range over twenty years, beginning with Barker's first major work for the stage, Claw, a study of urban discontent and political impotence, developed over three stylistically contrasting acts. Its terrible conclusion marked the debut of a vivid dramatic imagination. In Ursula Barker's engagement with the pains of the past, and his way of reinvigorating ancient arguments reaches a high point in his treatment of the legend of St Ursula and the martyrdom of 11,000 virgins, where the virtues of celibacy and marriage are set against the catastrophic passion of a woman described as a 'perfect liar'. Barker's scrutiny of the body and its complex meanings is never more intense than in He Stumbled, the tragedy of a celebrated anatomist whose last dissection becomes his own. The body as a site of political and personal investment is also at the heart of The Love of a Good Man, an early work set on the empty battlefields of the Great War, where the burial of the dead becomes a pretext for private ambition as well as national grief.

Author : Charles Lamb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135304522

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Howard Barker's Theatre of Seduction by Charles Lamb Pdf

Study of the British playwright, Howard Barker which arose from Lamb's idea that current performance theories and production techniques do not work with Barker's plays. Lamb sets Barker's work against those ideas expounded by Edward Bond and the world of deconstruction and postmodern thought. Nine of Barker's drawings are also reproduced.

Author : Howard Barker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781783193127

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Howard Barker: Plays Nine by Howard Barker Pdf

The latest collection of plays by Howard Barker, one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of our time. Internationally renowned, his plays challenge, unsettle and expose. The latest volume in Oberon's Howard Barker series comprises the plays Harrowing and Uplifting Interviews, In the Cloth Cathedral, In the Depths of Dead Love and More No Still.

Author : Pamela Howard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134027682

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What is Scenography? by Pamela Howard Pdf

Pamela Howard's What is Scenography? has become a classic text in contemporary theatre design and performance practice. In this second edition, the author expands on her holistic analysis of scenography as comprising space, text, research, art, performers, directors and spectators, to examine the changing nature of scenography in the twenty-first century. The book includes: case studies and anecdotes from Howard's own celebrated career illustrations of her own recent work, in full colour throughout an updated 'world view' of scenography, with definitions from the world's most famous and influential scenographers A direct and personal response to the question of how to define scenography by one of the world's leading practitioners, What is Scenography? continues to shape the work of visual theatremakers throughout the world.

Author : Howard Barker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781849433792

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Barker: Plays Four by Howard Barker Pdf

Includes the plays I Saw Myself, The Dying of Today, Found in the Ground and The Road, the House, the Road Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. In I Saw Myself a woman's longing to understand her compulsion to transgress the laws of her society comes into collision with the conventions of an art form. In the weaving of a tapestry Barker's13th century heroine privileges private life over public responsibility. If she is cruelly punished she is also granted self-awareness. A critical moment in social decay is also at the centre of The Dying of Today, in which a stranger who luxuriates in the telling of bad news observes the effects of his devastating narrative on a humble barber. The barber's recovery from pain, and the beauty of his sensibility, bring the two strangers into an emotional proximity. Barker's most experimental work in form and content is probably Found in the Ground, a mobile, musical work set during the last days of an aged Nuremberg judge whose baying hounds and burning library form an uncanny background to his wayward daughter's struggle to make meaning from the atrocities of the 20th century. The contradictions of the humanist personality are explored in The Road, the House, the Road. Erasmus' obscure colleague Aventinus was found dead on a wintry road. How he arrived at his solitary death forms the subject of this speculation on scholarship, mischief and the murderer's vocation.

Author : Howard Barker
Publisher : Oberon Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1783193115

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Howard Barker: Plays Nine by Howard Barker Pdf

The latest collection of plays by Howard Barker, one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of our time. Internationally renowned, his plays challenge, unsettle and expose. The latest volume in Oberon's Howard Barker series comprises the plays Harrowing and Uplifting Interviews, In the Cloth Cathedral, In the Depths of Dead Love and More No Still.

Author : Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030286996

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Body and Event in Howard Barker's Drama by Alireza Fakhrkonandeh Pdf

This book explores questions of gender, desire, embodiment, and language in Barker’s oeuvre. With The Castle as a focal point, the scope extends considerably beyond this play to incorporate analysis and exploration of the Theatre of Catastrophe; questions of gender, subjectivity and desire; God/religion; aesthetics of the self; autonomy-heteronomy; ethics; and the relation between political and libidinal economy, at stake in 20 other plays by Barker (including Rome, The Power of the Dog, The Bite of the Night, Judith, Possibilities, I Saw Myself, Fence in Its Thousandth Year, The Gaoler’s Ache for the Nearly Dead, The Brilliance of the Servant, Golgo, among others).

Author : David Ian Rabey,Sarah Goldingay
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 0719089298

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Howard Barker's Art of Theatre by David Ian Rabey,Sarah Goldingay Pdf

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 : David I Rabey,Henk Huijser
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1989-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349199105

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Howard Barker: Politics and Desire by David I Rabey,Henk Huijser Pdf

Author : Howard Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1350924504

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Arguments for a Theatre by Howard Barker Pdf

This new edition of Barker's seminal text Arguments for a Theatre outlines the theory and practice of his 'Theatre of Catastrophe'. Author of over thirty plays, Howard Barker has long been an implacable foe of the liberal British establishment, and champion of radical theatre world-wide. His best-known plays are The Castle, Scenes from an Execution and The Possibilities. All his plays are emotionally highly charged, intellectually stimulating and have no truck with the theatrical conventions of what he terms the 'Establishment Theatre'. These fragments, essays, thoughts and poems on the nature of theatre likewise reject the constraints of 'objective' academic theatre criticism. Rather they explore the collision (and collusion) of intellect and artistry in the creative act. This book is more than a collection of essays: it is a cultural manifesto.

Author : D. Rabey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230582033

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Howard Barker: Ecstasy and Death by D. Rabey Pdf

Barker has been acclaimed as 'England's greatest living dramatist' in The Times and as 'the Shakespeare of our age' by Sarah Kane. His uniquely stylish work brings together startlingly original forms of classical discipline, moral ruthlessness and catastrophic eroticism. This study considers the full range of his theatrical achievements.

Author : James Reynolds,Andy W. Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408184257

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Howard Barker's Theatre: Wrestling with Catastrophe by James Reynolds,Andy W. Smith Pdf

Howard Barker and The Wrestling School have been seen as marginal to the major concerns of British theatre, problematic in their staging and challenging in the ideas they explore. Yet Barker's writing career spans six decades, he is the only living writer to have been accorded an entire season with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and The Wrestling School produces theatre of such a striking quality that it earned continuous Arts Council funding for nearly 20 years. Wrestling with Catastrophe challenges existing ways of reading Barker's theatre practice and plays and provides new ways into his work. It brings together conversations with theatre makers from in and outside The Wrestling School, with first-hand accounts of the company's practice, and a selection of critical readings. The book's combining of testimony from key Wrestling School practitioners with alternative practical perspectives, and with analysis by both established and emerging scholars, ensures that a spectrum of understanding emerges that is rich in both breadth and depth. In its consideration of the full range of Barker's aesthetic concerns - including text, direction, design, acting, narrative form, poetry, appropriation, painting, photography, electronic media, technology, puppetry, and theatre space - the volume makes a radical re-evaluation of Barker's theatre possible.