{"product_id":"howard-barker-plays-twelve-at-her-age-and-hers-landscape-with-cries-womanly-four-dialogues-true-condition-paperback","title":"Howard Barker: Plays Twelve: At Her Age and Hers; Landscape with Cries; Womanly; Four Dialogues; True Condition - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHoward Barker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe theatre of Howard Barker subverts myth and invents history in its pursuit of the meaning of individual integrity. Repudiating politics and asserting the primacy of the emotions, Barker's tragedy is written in a language by turns poetic and brutally mundane. The effects are disconcerting and destabilizing, as he insists tragedy must be. The twelfth and final collection of plays from this celebrated, influential and widely-studied playwright includes: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt Her Age and Hers\u003c\/i\u003e, which uses Velázquez's painting Las Meninas to meditate on the making of a work of art, removing the figures from the frame, animating them, and assembling them again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLandscape with Cries\u003c\/i\u003e, which invokes the savagery of the Peasants' Revolt of fourteenth-century France to create an unlikely heroine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomanly\u003c\/i\u003e, a play which is alternatively dreamlike and nightmarish in its biography of Elbow, the aptly named protagonist who defies the conventional morals of her day. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFour Dialogues \u003c\/i\u003ewhich are small in size of cast, but ambitious in their confrontations with the ideas of faith, language, and longing. Struggling to define their needs, the characters come near to the final purpose of Barker's dramatic endeavour - the discovery of a reason to exist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrue Condition -\u003c\/i\u003e both the title of the play and the name of an unseaworthy vessel - which tells of the final voyage of a boat crewed by criminals.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHoward Barker\u003c\/b\u003e is an internationally renowned dramatist, whose first plays were performed at the Royal Court and by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Since 1992 his work has been presented by his own company The Wrestling School. Barker's theatre is characterized by its poetic, non-naturalistic form and inhabits worlds of contradiction, suffering and sexual passion. Barker is also a poet and theorist of theatre, whose 'Theatre of Catastrophe' defines a new form of tragedy for our times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 440\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.89 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 18, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52503227662643,"sku":"9781350355989","price":55.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/eUFXRk12STRTckJ4anJnS1hEVE9tUT09.webp?v=1760165917","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/howard-barker-plays-twelve-at-her-age-and-hers-landscape-with-cries-womanly-four-dialogues-true-condition-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}