Name: Arguments for a Theatre By Howard Barker
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Arguments for a Theatre by Howard Barker

The author of over 30 plays, including The Castle, Scenes from an Execution and The Possibilities, Howard Barker does not accept the theatrical conventions of what he terms The Establishment Theatre. These fragments, essays, poems and thoughts 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 new edition features a new introduction by Amanda Price and over twice as many essays.

Part 1: introduction to second edition. Part 2: 49 asides for a tragic theatre; ye gotta laugh; conversation with a dead poet; on language in drama; radical elitism in the theatre; notes to The Bite of the Night; honouring the audience; the politics beyond the politics; the consolations of catastrophe; beauty and terror in the theatre of catastrophe; Juha Malmivaara's Scenes from an Execution; on Nigel Terry's performance of savage in The Bite of the Night; on watching a performance by life prisoners; the offer, the reward and the need to disappoint; the audience, the soul and the stage; the catastrophic theatre; theatre without a conscience; the deconsecration of meaning in the theatre of catastrophe; the cult of accessibility and the theatre of obscurity; a bargain with impossibility - the theatre of moral speculation in an age of accord; recognition as aesthetic paralysis in theatre; the theatre lies under a shroud; the state of loss as the end of a dramatic performance; two Bradshaws; the idea of promiscuity in the theatre of catastrophe; on the sickness of the audience; eleven building bricks; stages in the education of an audience; the anatomy of a sob; the development of a theory of beauty for the stage; towards a theory of production; barely concealed irritation - a critical encounter on plethora. Part 3: a dialogue with David Ian Rabey; interview with Howard Barker, Charles Lamb; afterword, David Ian Rabey. Part 4: bibliography of primary works.

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GOR012697292

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9780719039980

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0719039983

Title

Arguments for a Theatre by Howard Barker

Author

Howard Barker

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Used - Well Read

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Paperback

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Year published

19930916

Number of pages

144

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Arguments for a Theatre Howard Barker

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