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Masochistic collusion
Und Riverside Studios London **** There is no such thing as a minor Howard Barker play. He packs more into the slenderest dramas than most playwrights manage in an epic. His latest has one character,...
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Paint a true picture at your peril
Scenes From An ExecutionThe Pit, Barbican Rating: ****Written for radio in 1984, this strikes me as Howard Barker's best play, a classic study of the inevitable conflict between the artist and society....
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Scenes from an Execution, Dundee Rep
Dundee RepLast month, the Scottish Executive launched a "cultural commission" to take stock of arts provision. Its policy document was full of phrases such as "best value" and "accessibility", the...
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Mark Brown: People
How many of you remember watching a sketch show called Out of the Trees with Graham Chapman and Douglas Adams from 1976? No hands then. A pilot for what they hoped would be a series was broadcast but...
View ArticleHoward Barker: Lindesay Irvine talks to the playwright about the Seduction of...
Lindesay Irvine talks to Howard Barker about "The Seduction of Almighty God" and about the role of the writer in theatre. Music by Francesca Panetta, with extracts from matiasromero at...
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Scenes from an Execution, Hackney Empire, London
Hackney Empire, LondonGood plays are of the moment; great plays are for all time. So it is with Howard Barker's bitterly humorous 20-year-old drama which explores not just the responsibilities of the...
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Theatre review: I Saw Myself / Jerwood Vanburgh, London
Jerwood Vanburgh, LondonIn Howard Barker's latest play, Geraldine Alexander plays Sleev - the lady of the manor whose husband has been killed in a war that is still waging. As the war draws ever...
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Royal Court Upstairs marks 40 years of scaling new heights
Opened in 1969, the Royal Court's tiny second stage gave many of our best dramatists their big break. We look back on its history of innovation, and playwrights recall how the Jerwood Upstairs shaped...
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Found in the Ground | Theatre review
Riverside Studios, LondonWell, this is a challenge, and a gruelling one. Howard Barker gives little away in his latest vision of hell on earth, one of those theatrical experiences where everyone around...
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Do we really watch plays for pleasure? | Andrew Haydon
Howard Barker's work is challenging at the best of times - but a recent production makes me wonder if enjoyment is actually the pointYesterday was 21 for 21, the 21st anniversary celebration of the...
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Howard Barker: a champion of imagination, not 'relevance'
The controversial playwright has been criticised for – and lost funding over – his obscurity. But his plays inhabit a world where creativity, not utility, is kingIn 2007, Arts Council England ended the...
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Open thread: is it OK to walk out of a play?
Audience members have been leaving previews of the National theatre's Scenes from an Execution at the interval. Smart or short-sighted?At an art gallery, you can simply skip the works that don't...
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Howard Barker: 'I don't care if you listen or not'
Howard Barker thinks theatre should be an ordeal. He reveals why staging his latest play, Scenes from an Execution, at London's National theatre is a problemFor most British playwrights, having your...
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Scenes from an Execution – review
Lyttelton, LondonDespite one of those first-night technical glitches that seem to happen a bit too often at the National, this is a fine revival by Tom Cairns of Howard Barker's tremendous play about...
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This House; Scenes from an Execution; Damned by Despair – review
National Theatre, LondonThis is the National doing its job. Nicholas Hytner's theatre is behaving as if it were a federation of varied talents: the good, the very good and the not so good. The big...
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Masochistic collusion
Und Riverside Studios London **** There is no such thing as a minor Howard Barker play. He packs more into the slenderest dramas than most playwrights manage in an epic. His latest has one character,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Paint a true picture at your peril
Scenes From An ExecutionThe Pit, Barbican Rating: ****Written for radio in 1984, this strikes me as Howard Barker's best play, a classic study of the inevitable conflict between the artist and society....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Scenes from an Execution, Dundee Rep
Dundee RepLast month, the Scottish Executive launched a "cultural commission" to take stock of arts provision. Its policy document was full of phrases such as "best value" and "accessibility", the...
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Mark Brown: People
How many of you remember watching a sketch show called Out of the Trees with Graham Chapman and Douglas Adams from 1976? No hands then. A pilot for what they hoped would be a series was broadcast but...
View ArticleHoward Barker: Lindesay Irvine talks to the playwright about the Seduction of...
Lindesay Irvine talks to Howard Barker about "The Seduction of Almighty God" and about the role of the writer in theatre. Music by Francesca Panetta, with extracts from matiasromero at...
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