HOWARD BARKER (1946 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Howard Barker
13 Objects |
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
Actress With An Unloved Child |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2007 | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Work in Progress | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | 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 . . . | |||||
All He Fears |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Barge, London | 1994 | ||||
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Alpha Alpha |
| 1st Produced: | Open Space, London | 1972 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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| Synopsis: | The Kray twins entertain an English peer to an exhibition of matricide | |||||
Animals In Paradise |
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||||
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Bang |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1973 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Birth On A Hard Shoulder |
| 1st Produced: | Stockholm | 1980 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in Two Plays for the Right", Calder, 1982 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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Bite Of The Night, The |
| 1st Produced: | The Pit, London | 1988 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1988 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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Brutopia: Secret Life In Old Chelsea |
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| 1st Published: | in "Barker, Howard, Collected Plays Vol.2" Calder & Boyers, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Historiacal drama | - | Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
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| Synopsis: | 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 | |||||
Castle, The |
| 1st Produced: | The Pit, London | 1985 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Triumph | - | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
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| Synopsis: | The return of Crusading males to a feminised feudal demesne provides the central theme as conflict breeds confusion | |||||
Cheek |
| 1st Produced: | 1970 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | in "New Short Plays 3", Eyre Methuen, London, 1972 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 |
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| Synopsis: | An unemployed youth seeks salvation through personal philosophy | |||||
Claw |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1975 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1977 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | A deprived youth catches a glimpse of the ruling class | |||||
Crimes In Hot Countries |
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | a British profiteer who sets up shop in a remote colonial outpost along with three prostitutes arriving to relieve the frustration of garrisoned troops | |||||
Dead Hands |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon, London, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
Don't Exaggerate |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1984 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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Downchild |
| 1st Produced: | The Pit, London | 1985 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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Dumb Woman's Ecstasy, The |
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| 1st Published: | in "Barker, Howard, Collected Plays Vol.2" Calder & Boyers, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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Dying Of The Day, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
Early Hours of a Reviled Man |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
| Company: | Rhyme And Reason | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Ecstatic Bible, The |
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| 1st Published: | Oberon, London, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
Edward : The Final Days |
| 1st Produced: | Open Space, London | 1972 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | Edward heath, a mischievous biography | |||||
Europeans, The |
| 1st Produced: | Greenwich, London | 1993 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in "Playscript 118" Calder & Boyers, London, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 8 |
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| Synopsis: | Barker's The Europeans leads us through a cross-section of war-ravaged Vienna, post-Turkish invasion of the late 1600's. This is a place where manners disappear with shops, the most genteel women will sell their bodies for a loaf of bread, and the blood of Turkish prisoners runs free. The Emporer and Empress want the normality of the past, but only Starhemburg, the army general and saviour of the city, realises that a new future must be forged, and sees Katrin - a young woman mutilated, raped and impregnated by the Turks - as being the agent for change. No Barker play is more relevant now than The Europeans. It unapologetically reveals us as we are: primal beasts dangerously struggling to learn the love of oneself and finding the spirit to love one another. | |||||
Faceache |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1971 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Fair Slaughter |
| 1st Produced: | 1977 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscript 82, Calder and Boyars, London, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | a veteran communist and oldest living murderer in England, lies in a prison hospital planning his escape | |||||
Fence, The: In It's Thousandth Year |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon, London, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
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| Synopsis: | 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 | |||||
Found In The Ground |
| 1st Produced: | 01/Oct 2009 | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 4 nurses | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Urinating nurses, mechanical dogs, headless women, burning books and Adolf Hitler are all part of the bold visceral landscape of Howard Barker's startling new play. A startling and provocative kaleidoscope of images, movement and powerfully poetic language, Found In The Ground is his most unique stage work yet; an exhilarating challenge to both language and what we think of as a play but threaded with a cruel black comedy and a host of characters whose human weaknesses, dreams and desires we all too readily recognise. A dying former Nuremberg judge consigns his priceless library to the bonfire. As he rejoices in this willful barbarism, his delinquent daughter discovers a bizarre obsession and his executed victims appear. His desire to meet the arch criminal who evaded his prosecution is at last satisfied when Hitler arrives to discuss painting. | |||||
Gary the Thief / Gary Upright |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | From Poems By Howard Barker | |||||
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Gertrude - The Cry |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
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| Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
Golgo: Sermons On Pain And Privilege |
| 1st Produced: | Leicester | 1989 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Hang Of The Goal, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1978 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | in "Playscript 94" Calder & Boyers, London, 1982 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | it takes the lid off one of the most enclosed institutions in this or any society - the prison | |||||
Hard Heart, A |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | explores the ways we protect our political and human borders. Barker’s prophetic drama imagines a country facing invasion. 'Praxis' the Queen enlists the Genius 'Riddler' to devise a strategy to protect their threatened culture, but is the sacrifice too much? | |||||
Hated Nightfall |
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | in "Playscript 120" Calder & Boyers, London, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Historical Tragedy | - | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | speculation on what occurred on the last night in the lives of the Russian Imperial family | |||||
He Stumbled |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | Doja, an anatomist whose reputation for embalming dead monarchs is second to none, is summoned by an obscure kingdom where the king is on his deathbed. But no sooner has Doja put the first incision into the body than he is besieged by the queen, the young prince and others in the kingdom who all want to seduce him.. He senses that he is in extreme danger but is powerless to escape and avoid his doom. He is forced to collude in his own assassination. Lyn Gardner, Guardian | |||||
Heaven |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in "Playscript 94" Calder & Boyers, London, 1982 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Screenplay | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||||
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House of Correction, A |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
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I Saw Myself |
| 1st Produced: | Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre, London | 2008 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
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| Notes: | New End Theatre, Hampstead, London (rehearsed reading), 2007 >>> . Howard Barker's theatre company The Wrestling School was one of the companies cut by Arts Council England in its recent round of funding decisions but has been saved by an American fan who has pledged to replace that funding for the next three years. Now the company is to premiere its twentieth anniversary production, Barker's I Saw Myself. - The British Theatre Guide | |||||
| Synopsis: | Sleev, a rich and promiscuous woman wants to confess her scandalous sexual history to a world that has never dared acknowledge it. . .The men are at war. The women weave a great tapestry portraying the conflict. The death of Sleev's husband in battle compels her to insinuate her sexual adventures into the tapestry, provoking fear and hostility in all those around her. In her struggle to assert the right to depict her personal experience Howard Barker has created another gloriously self-willed, erotic and fascinating character, returning to the theme of the subversion of public art by individual expression he first explored in Scenes From An Execution. The piece explores the role of the mirror, the autobiography and the self-portrait in an intriguing and unpredictable way. - The British Theatre Guide | |||||
Judith |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | in "Playscript 118" Calder & Boyers, London, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Historical Tragedy | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | history of Judith and Holofernes most famous of the stories of the Apocrypha | |||||
Kiss My Hands |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in "Barker, Howard, Collected Plays Vol.2" Calder & Boyers, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Last Supper, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1988 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Religious Play | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | speculation on the death of the prophet Lvov, whose waning powers can only be obscured by a literal enactment of transubstantiation | |||||
Loud Boy's Life |
| 1st Produced: | Royal Shakespeare Company Warehouse >>> at Aldwych Theatre, London | 1980 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Two Plays for the Right", Calder, 1982 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A great parliamentarian dies | |||||
Love Of A Good Man, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1980 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Iconoclastic Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | them - the mass burial of war dead - is explored both from the erotic and political point of view | |||||
Necessity For Prostitution In Advanced Societies, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Barker, Howard, Collected Plays Vol.2" Calder & Boyers, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
No End Of Blame: Scenes Of Overcoming |
| 1st Produced: | Oxford Playhouse Company | 1981 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1981 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | No End of Blame: Scenes of Overcoming explores the role of the artist in society and the struggle for freedom of expression. Starting with a harrowing depiction of war with an attempted rape and a near execution in the Carpathian Mountains during WWI, the protagonist is the brilliant Hungarian political cartoonist Bela Veracek (loosely based on German cartoonist Victor Weisz). Running from Hungary at the end of the First World War to the newly emergent Soviet Union and then to a pre-WWII Britain, he's constantly at odds with the governments he lampoons and the newspapers that admire his talent but expect conformity and absolute submission | |||||
No One Was Saved |
| 1st Produced: | 1971 | |||||
| Company: | Royal Court Schools Scheme | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 4m as The Saved Gang | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | John Lennon encounters Eleanor Rigby | |||||
Not Him |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Barker, Howard, Collected Plays Vol.2" Calder & Boyers, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
One Night Stand |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Only Some Can Take The Strain |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Barker, Howard, Collected Plays Vol.2" Calder & Boyers, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Passion In Six Days, A |
| 1st Produced: | Sheffield | 1983 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Philosophical Lieutenant, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Barker, Howard, Collected Plays Vol.2" Calder & Boyers, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Pity In History |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1986 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Riverrun Press, New York, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | televised 1985 | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Poor Man's Friend, The |
| 1st Produced: | Colway Theatre Trust, Bridport | 1981 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Community Play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Possibilities, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | series of ten pieces | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | on irrationality and the limits of logic as the characters act against their own interests, but in doing so both refine and complicate their humanity | |||||
Power Of The Dog, The |
| 1st Produced: | Brentford, Middlesex | 1984 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Movements in History and Anti-History | - | Parts: | Male | 19 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Tragedy of Eastern Europe and the mayhem of 1945 whilst a comic treads the murderous line between truth and accommodation. | |||||
Private Parts |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1972 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 4/4 | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Reasons For The Fall Of Emperors |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Barker, Howard, Collected Plays Vol.2" Calder & Boyers, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Rome: On Being Divine |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Barker, Howard, Collected Plays Vol.2" Calder & Boyers, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Religious Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | its form is interwoven narratives, asides and digressions, its concerns are spirituality, culture and sacrifice | |||||
Rule Britannia |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1973 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Scenes From An Execution |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 16 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | broadcast 1984 | |||||
| Synopsis: | Artists have no power and great imagination. The state has no imagination and great power. The perennial mismatch. | |||||
Seduction Of Almighty God, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
| Notes: | sub title: by the Boy Priest Loftus in the Abbey of Calcetto, 1539 | |||||
| Synopsis: | Set at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the English Reformation, the play describes the spiritual ascendancy of an adolescent priest and the appalling discovery that he possesses the power of life and death over others, both religous and secular. Victimised by his bretheren and eventually murdered by his female followers, the youth Loftus argues hiself into the belief that god, weary of his own impotence, has devoted His powers upon him | |||||
Seven Lears |
| 1st Produced: | Sheffield | 1989 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Shakespeare | |||||
| Synopsis: | A streetperson in New York City finds a pair of discarded drumsticks and proceeds to drum a variety of objects creating a world full of rhythm | |||||
She Sees The Argument But |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Barker, Howard, Collected Plays Vol.2" Calder & Boyers, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Skipper, And My Sister And I |
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Stripwell |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1977 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A judge fails to accommodate his conscience. | |||||
Swing at Night, The |
| 1st Produced: | Barge, Little Venice, London | 2001 | ||||
| Company: | Movingstage Marionette Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Puppet Play for Adults | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Ten Dilemmas In The Life Of God: The Incarcaration Text |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Barker, Howard, Collected Plays Vol.2" Calder & Boyers, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Tragedy | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | tells of the agonises passion of a man and a woman whose collusive impotence arouses the wrath of the collective - the ultimate rebellion against conditioned existence | |||||
That Good Between Us |
| 1st Produced: | Royal Shakespeare Company Warehouse >>> at Aldwych Theatre, London | 1977 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1980 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | The secret police break a conspiracy in a morally vacuous world. Someone survives | |||||
Three Village Women, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Barker, Howard, Collected Plays Vol.2" Calder & Boyers, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Twelfth Battle of Isonzo, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
| Company: | Iomha Ildanach | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Uncle Vanya |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Barker, Howard, Collected Plays Vol.2" Calder & Boyers, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | |||||
| Synopsis: | shows a man redeemed from self disgust and liberated from the Chekhovian half light to a world of sexual assertion | |||||
Und |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Unforeseen Consequences Of A Patriotic Act, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Barker, Howard, Collected Plays Vol.2" Calder & Boyers, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Ursula: Fear Of The Estuary |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Victory: Choices In Reaction |
| 1st Produced: | 1983 | |||||
| Company: | Joint Stock | |||||
| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 26 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Victory is set in the English Civil War and follows the ethical voyage of a widow towards personal reconstruction | |||||
Wax |
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | NATO manoeuvres are disrupted by a personal problem | |||||
Weaver's Ecstasy At The Discovery Of New Colour, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Barker, Howard, Collected Plays Vol.2" Calder & Boyers, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Women Beware Women |
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Thomas Middleton | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Wounded Knife, A |
| 1st Produced: | Aberystwyth Arts Centre Studio Theatre, Wales | 21 Oct 2009 | ||||
| Company: | Bold Productions and Lurking Truth Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A tense and compelling dramatic enquiry into the terms of life and death, A Wounded Knife brings together strong characters and shockingly unsentimental humour in a vivid story of sexual fixation and remorselessness. In this highly intriguing and engaging example of Barker’s distinctive drama, an unrepentant murderer is given a new lease of life by an unpredictable prince, who is driven to test the limits of others and himself, including a seductive widow, a revenge-driven tailor and a lethal surgeon. A Wounded Knife explores the dangers of love and questions of justice, in scenes rich with the tangles of eroticism and speculation, which prove both comic and terrifying. | |||||
Wounds To The Face |
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | in "Playscript 120" Calder & Boyers, London, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | series of interlocking narratives revealing the pains society and its individuals undergo in negotiating the human face | |||||