|aHoward Baker|h[electronic resource] :|becstasy and death : an expository study of his drama, theory and production work, 1988-2008 /|cDavidIan Rabey.
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|aBasingstoke [England] ;|aNew York :|bPalgrave Macmillan,|c2009.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 282-284) and index.
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|aContents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and References -- PARTI: A STYLE AND ITS CONTEXTS -- Gifts of Loss: An Introduction to Barker's Writing and Theatre -- 'The Ecstasy of Vanishing Meaning': Arguments for a Theatre; Death, The One and The Art of Theatre -- PART II: PLAYS AND PRODUCTIONS -- Intimacy with the Unforgivable: The Last Supper, The Early Hours of a Reviled Man, Golgo, Judith, Rome, Ten Dilemmas -- Cultural Re-Fashionings and Shakespearean Negotiations: Brutopia, Seven Lears, (Uncle) Vanya, Minna -- Separation, Sacrifice and Sainthood: A Hard Heart, Terrible Mouth, Hated Nightfall, Ego in Arcadia, The Brilliance of the Servant, The Gaoler's Ache, Twelve Encounters with a Prodigy, Ursula -- Facing the Wound: Wounds to the Face, Und, He Stumbled, House of Correction-- Infinite Reversibility: All He Fears, The Swing at Night, Albertina, Knowledge and a Girl, The Twelfth Battle of Isonzo, Animals in Paradise, The Ecstatic Bible, Found in the Ground -- Wrestling with God: Defilo, All This Joseph, Five Names, N/A (Sad Kissing), Gertrude - The Cry, The Seduction of Almighty God, The Moving and the Still, Two Skulls, Acts (Chapter One) -- Servitude and Servility:An Eloquence, The Blood of a Wife, A Rich Woman's Poetry, Stalingrad, Thirteen Objects, The Dying of Today, Dead Hands, Christ's Dog -- The Boundary and Beyond: The Fence, Heroica, Adorations Chapter1, Dead, Dead and VeryDead, The Road, The House, The Road, Let Me, A Wounded Knife, Lot and his God, The Forty (Few Words), I Saw Myself -- Inconclusion: Consolations in Extremity: Howard Barker: A Style and its Origins -- Appendix One: Testimonies by Barker Actors: Julia Tarnoky, Justin Avoth, Edward Petherbridge, Melanie Jessop, Gerrard McArthur -- Appendix Two: Howard Barker: A Chronology -- Selected Further Reading -- Index.
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|aHoward Barker b2 ss theatre is uniquely alluring and startlingly original, bringing together classical discipline, moral ruthlessness and transgressive eroticism, in a form and experience Barker terms Theatre of Catastrophe. His uniquely stylish and rigorous work as a director forhis theatre company, The Wrestling School, challenges and breaks the limits of conventional theatre, to present haunting speculations on humanity in situations of crisis. He has also emerged as a major theorist on the possibilities of theatre, and on human specificity, and the importantly surprising powers of both. This study considers the full range of Barker b2 ss theatrical and theoretical work in exploring and dramatizing life b2 ss extremity, brevity and intensity, in order to create a moment of knowledge beyond the received terms of history.
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|aElectronic reproduction.|bBasingstoke, England :|cPalgrave Macmillan,|d2009.|nMode of access:World Wide Web.|nSystem requirements: Web browser.|nTitle from title screen (viewed on July 24, 2009).|nAccess may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.