Research Catalog

Title

Howard Barker's theatre : wrestling with catastrophe / edited by James Reynolds and Andy W. Smith.

Publication

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Reynolds, James (Senior lecturer in drama)
• Smith, Andy W.

Description

xvi, 267 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"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. The book brings together 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 - and in doing so, makes a radical re-evaluation possible"--

Series Statement

Methuen drama engage

Uniform Title

Methuen drama engage.

Subjects

• PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism
• Barker, Howard, 1946- > Criticism and interpretation
• Wrestling School (Theatre company)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- James Reynolds and Andy W. Smith Part One: Howard Barker and The Wrestling School Introduction to Part One 1. A Company and its Origins -- James Reynolds in conversation with Kenny Ireland 2. From the Actor, to the Actor -- Nicholas Le Prevost, Philip Franks, James Clyde, Sean O'Callaghan, Jules Melvin, Victoria Wicks and Suzy Cooper 3. Directing Slowly -- Hanna Berrigan 4. Amplifying Catastrophe -- Ace McCarron 5. On Discipline -- James Reynolds in conversation with Howard Barker Part Two: Readings/Inversions Introduction to Part Two 6. 'To experience a thing as beautiful': the Photographic Practice of Howard Barker -- Andy W. Smith 7. Vintage Barker: New Writing in Old Bottles -- James Hudson 8. Howard Barker and the Return of Religion -- Peter A. Groves 9. Going Underground -- James Reynolds Part Three: Other Barkers Introduction to Part Three 10. Acting Barker -- Hanna Berrigan in conversation with Fiona Shaw 11. Staging Barker in America -- Andy W. Smith in conversation with Cheryl Faraone and Richard Romagnoli 12. Barker from a Viewpoint: Staging Ursula: Fear of the Estuary -- Sarah Crews 13. Staging Barker at Scotland's Conservatoire -- Mark Brown in conversation with Hugh Hodgart 14. 'A Gallery Of Images': from the Aberystwyth Students -- David Ian Rabey.

Call Number

JFD 15-2629

ISBN

• 9781408184394
• 1408184397
• 9781408184318
• 1408184311
• 9781408185995 (ePDF) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781408184257 (ePub) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014049149

OCLC

886489387

Title

Howard Barker's theatre : wrestling with catastrophe / edited by James Reynolds and Andy W. Smith.

Publisher

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Methuen drama engage

Methuen drama engage.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Reynolds, James (Senior lecturer in drama), editor.

Smith, Andy W., editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 15-2629