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in Plays Two, Oberon Books, London >>> , 2006

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A spade. A cup and saucer. A medal. A pair of shoes. A rattle. A camera. A ring. A painting. A pair of spectacles. An urn. A postcard. A bucket. A drum. 13 objects. Everyday. Dull. Mundane. But what if one was capable of inspiring tears? Or a great passion? Even a war. The play explores the intimate connection we often make with everyday objects. Although familiar and mundane in themselves, they can resonate with intense memories or extreme feelings. Here a series of simple items inspire a moment of great sorrow, joy, pain, anger, even a substitute for the identity of a human being. Powerful poetic language, provocative ideas and rich, dark humour build a compelling and fascinating exploration of the secret lives of everyday objects.

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The Wrestling School, London >>>

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Work in Progress

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The funeral of a great artist . . . The mourners bicker and pay their respects at the same time . . . His mistress appears naked with a child . . . But why? As events unfold a growing sense infects the mourners that they are being manipulated from beyond the grave . . .

Theatre Barge, London

1994

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Open Space, London

1972

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The Kray twins entertain an English peer to an exhibition of matricide

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London

1973

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Stockholm

1980

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in Two Plays for the Right", Calder, 1982

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The Pit, London

1988

Royal Shakespeare Company >>>

Calder & Boyers, London, 1988

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in "Barker, Howard, Collected Plays Vol.2" Calder & Boyers, London, 1993

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a riposte to the conventional image of Thomas More, this play takes as its starting point the alienation of the least favoured of his daughters and her secret composition of a counter text to her father's classic Utopia

The Pit, London

1985

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Calder & Boyers, London, 1985

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Triumph

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The return of Crusading males to a feminised feudal demesne provides the central theme as conflict breeds confusion

Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London >>>

1970

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in "New Short Plays 3", Eyre Methuen, London, 1972

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An unemployed youth seeks salvation through personal philosophy

London

1975

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Calder & Boyers, London, 1977

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A deprived youth catches a glimpse of the ruling class

Almeida Theatre, London >>>

1982

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Calder & Boyers, London, 1984

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a British profiteer who sets up shop in a remote colonial outpost along with three prostitutes arriving to relieve the frustration of garrisoned troops

Riverside, London >>>

2004

The Wrestling School, London >>>

Oberon, London,

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A young man rushes to reach the bedside of his dying father, but arrives too late. His younger brother was present at the death, but his attitude is strangely ambiguous, and the elder brother becomes suspicious. The intentions of the dead man's mistress are also unclear. The mourners become increasingly consumed by feverish imagining, building a powerfully tense atmosphere as their characters start to disintegrate.

London

1984

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The Pit, London

1985

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Calder & Boyers, London, 1985

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Arcola Theatre, London, EUR >>>

2008

The Wrestling School, London >>>

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Tense, dark and witty, this concise 80 minute new work is a gripping tale of an encounter between the diabolical and the innocent in a bold and beautiful exploration of a world overturned. A mysterious visitor to a barber's shop announces he has news to tell. But first he invites the barber to imagines the worst imaginable catastrophe he can. He envisages a national catastrophe in which his own son is a victim. This approaching disaster will destroy his life but also that of the diabolical visitor, so at the end they share a dreadful intimacy. In the wash of savagery that the world experiences every day, how can we contain any sense of individual suffering? In this play, the barber gains an agonising knowledge of the cataclysm to come, while his friends and neighbours know nothing. The play explores what this does to him and the choices he must make.

Finborough Theatre, London >>>

1999

Rhyme And Reason

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Oberon, London,

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A testament to the millienium, Howard Barker's Ecstatic Bible sweeps through a landscape shaped by the European political and social experience of the twentieth century. A series of interlocking narratives negotiate a strange landscape - streets, a chateau, a hospital ward of war wounded - inhabited by amoral and passionate characters. Provocative imagery and poetic language are suffused with a rich, dark humour. This intriguing collection of parables without morality carries within it the profound echoes of past pain and comic contradiction.

Open Space, London

1972

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Greenwich, London

1993

The Wrestling School, London >>>

in "Playscript 118" Calder & Boyers, London, 1990

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set in the liberated Vienna of 1683 is a play of contrasting freedoms, takes one of the great eruptions of Islamic imperialism as the background for a young woman's insistence on her right to her own identity

London

1971

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Royal Court Theatre, London >>>

1977

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Playscript 82, Calder and Boyars, London, 1978

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a veteran communist and oldest living murderer in England, lies in a prison hospital planning his escape

Birmingham Rep, Birmingham, UK >>>

2005

The Wrestling School, London >>>

Oberon, London, 2005

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inspired by the long distance fence under construction in the Gaza to separate the Palestinian and Jewish communities. Set in a world of rising frontiers and illegal immigration, The Fence uses powerful poetic language, provocative ideas and rich, dark humour to build a compelling epic about scandal in a ruling monarchy and its subsequent downfall. At the heart of this tale is the intensely personal story of a blind boy's struggle to discover his true identity in a world where nothing is what it seems

BAC, London >>>

1990

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Riverside, London >>>

2002

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in Plays Two, Oberon Books, London >>> , 2006

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Barker's abiding interest in interrogating the great classics for their 'silences' is shown in Gertrude - The Cry, his re-writing of the Hamlet story. Scarcely examined in Shakespeare, the passion of Gertrude for Claudius is made the centre of this harrowing tragedy, casting new light on the personality of Hamlet himself.

Leicester

1989

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Calder & Boyers, London, 1990

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Warehouse, Croydon, London >>>

1978

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in "Playscript 94" Calder & Boyers, London, 1982

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it takes the lid off one of the most enclosed institutions in this or any society - the prison

Almeida Theatre, London >>>

1992

The Wrestling School, London >>>

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