Howard Barker's Theatre: Wrestling with Catastrophe
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-4081-8439-4 (ISBN)
Wrestling with Catastrophe challenges existing ways of reading Barker’s theatre practice and plays and provides new ways into his work. It brings together conversations with theatre makers from in and outside The Wrestling School, with first-hand accounts of the company’s practice, and a selection of critical readings. The book’s combining of testimony from key Wrestling School practitioners with alternative practical perspectives, and with analysis by both established and emerging scholars, ensures that a spectrum of understanding emerges that is rich in both breadth and depth.
In its consideration of 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 - the volume makes a radical re-evaluation of Barker's theatre possible.
James Reynolds is a Lecturer in Drama at Kingston University, London, UK. He has also taught at Queen Mary, University of London, and Rose Bruford College. Dr Andy W. Smith is the Associate Head of the School of Media at the University of South Wales, UK. His doctoral thesis is a study of Howard Barker and his theatre company The Wrestling School. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on the theatre of Howard Barker, post-war British drama, horror cinema and the Gothic in popular culture.
Acknowledgments
List of Photographic Plates
Notes on Contributors
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
Endnotes
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.7.2015 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Methuen Drama Engage |
| Mitarbeit |
Herausgeber (Serie): Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty |
| Zusatzinfo | 8 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 417 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4081-8439-7 / 1408184397 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4081-8439-4 / 9781408184394 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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