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Howard Barker

January 2017

  • William Chubb (Lord Ghang) and James Clyde (Chin) in The Depths Of Dead Love by Howard Barker @ Print Room, Coronet, Notting Hill Gate. Directed by Gerrard McArthur. (Opening 19-01-17) ©Tristram Kenton 01/17 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    In the Depths of Dead Love review – pale and uninteresting

    Only the row over an all-white cast, in a tale set in ancient China, quickens the pulse of this arduous play
  • In the Depths of Dead Love

    In the Depths of Dead Love review – stultifying all-white Chinese fable

    A failed poet presides over a bottomless well in a production of Howard Barker’s play that has drawn fire for its lack of east Asian actors
  • Howard Barker

    Howard Barker: 'I have contempt for messages in plays. I'm not trying to influence anyone'

    In the past, his plays have enraged the right. But Howard Barker’s new foes are liberals – angry at the ‘yellowface’ casting in his latest work. Why is he so unbothered?

October 2012

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    This House; Scenes from an Execution; Damned by Despair – review

  • Scenes from an Execution – review

  • Howard Barker: 'I don't care if you listen or not'

  • West End - London

    Theatre blog
    Open thread: is it OK to walk out of a play?

April 2010

  • Found in the Ground by Howard Barker at the Riverside Studios

    Theatre blog
    Howard Barker: a champion of imagination, not 'relevance'

    Melanie Jessop: The controversial playwright Howard Barker has been criticised for – and lost funding over – his obscurity and elitism. But his plays inhabit a world where creativity, not utility, is king

October 2009

  • Geraldine James and Matthew Kell in Victory, Choices In Reaction at the Arcola theatre

    Theatre blog
    Should we watch plays for pleasure?

  • Alan Cox as Hitler and Kyle Soller as Denmark in Found in the Ground at Riverside Studios

    Found in the Ground

July 2009

  • New Production 'Tusk Tusk' at The Royal Court Theatre in London

    The Royal Court Upstairs marks 40 years of scaling new heights

    This tiny, risk-taking stage gave many of our best dramatists their big break. Michael Billington wishes the Royal Court Upstairs a happy birthday

April 2008

  • I Saw Myself

    Howard Barker is a pale reflection of himself in his latest play, writes Lyn Gardner

January 2007

  • Scenes from an Execution

    Hackney Empire, London

December 2006

  • The Guardian UK Culture Podcast
    Howard Barker: Lindesay Irvine talks to the playwright about the Seduction of Almighty God

  • People

May 2004

  • Scenes from an Execution

    Dundee Rep.

September 1999

  • Paint a true picture at your peril

    Written for radio in 1984, this strikes me as Howard Barker's best play, a classic study of the inevitable conflict between the artist and society. And, even though I have reservations about Barker's own Wrestling School production, I have none about Kathryn Hunter's bravura performance as the uncompromising painter heroine.

June 1999

  • Masochistic collusion

  • Anne Karpf

    What was that all about, then?

    Anne Karpf
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