Description: A new play from internationally acclaimed dramatist Howard Barker.
Brief description: Howard Barker 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.
Review Quotes: "The play is tough and knotty and brutal, but it is also compelling and intelligent and eloquent.' - Arts Desk
"Meaty poetry." - The Stage "This is a Howard Barker play... so there are no answers. But there are plenty of sly questions... examining the messiness of being human and the mysteries of love and desire." - Guardian