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Howard Barker

Barker: Plays Five

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Includes the plays The Last Supper, Seven Lears, Hated Nightfall and Wounds to the Face
Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose.Both The Last Supper and Seven Lears exemplify Barker's way with great religious and literary stories, the first placing the wilful suicide of a Christ-like prophet, Lvov, in the context of modern chaos, illuminating his moral ambiguities with comic or painful parables, the second taking its inspiration from the significant absence in Shakespeare's play, that of Lear's wife, the queen whose murder is here discerned as the origin as the great family tragedy.
The execution of the Russian royal family remains shrouded in mystery – not least that of the identity of two bodies discovered in the mass grave years after the event. In Hated Nightfall Barker's speculative imagination leads him to identify these as the children's tutor, Dancer, and a recalcitrant servant, Jane. Dancer is perhaps Barker's archetypal hero, febrile, iconoclastic, yet in search of a self-sacrifice nothing appears to justify. In Wounds to the Face, our complex and sometimes violent relations with our own physiognomy form the psychological link between related scenes of wounding, notoriety, shame and vanity in a play of kaleidoscopic energy and imagery.
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Дата публикации оригинала
2012
Год выхода издания
2012
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  • ggulnurdemirciцитирует8 лет назад
    HELEN: Don’t die…! Don’t die, Dancer!
  • ggulnurdemirciцитирует8 лет назад
    DANCER: Oh, how they hate me, Jane…in this, these arch-opponents are of one accord…for I am the antithesis of History, which has manacled their souls…
  • ggulnurdemirciцитирует8 лет назад
    The world revolves and dynasties can come and go but that diabolical and cynical parcel of depravity
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