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9781840029611 English 1840029617 (Uncle) Vanya, Barker's radical rewriting of Chekhov's classic, brought him more controversy than most of his other works put together. Interrogating not so much Chekhov's text as the use to which society has put it, Barker turns Vanya's defeat into victory and converts a play of sadness into a tragedy of desire. A House of Correction is a meditation on cause and effect. Set on the eve of a war which may destroy a society, the seemingly arbitrary arrival of a messenger with a vital communication sets off an agonizing train of events in the lives of three desperate women.Few works of drama can have plumbed the depths of solitude and rage that characterize Let Me, a nightmare set on the frontiers of the Roman Empire during the barbarian invasions.Biblical narratives serve as the origin of two shorter works, of which Judith is a contemporary classic of cultural conflict, a reinterpretation of the status of the heroine in Israel's war of survival against the Assyrians. In Lot and His God, the imminent destruction of Sodom simultaneously licenses the moral decay of an angel and the erotic epiphany of an adored wife., The latest volume in Oberon's Howard Barker series comprises the playsJudith, (Uncle) Vanya, A House of Correction and Hurts Given and Received.Barker is also a poet and theorist of theatre, whose 'Theatre of Catastrophe' has defined a new form of tragedy for our times and has had a significant impact in the fields of literary and theatre studies.Judith tells the story from the Biblical Apocrypha of the Jewish heroine Judith and the conquering Babylonian general Holofernes. (Uncle) VanyaA House of Correction is set on the eve of a world war. Hurts Given and Received is one of Barker's newest plays.
9781840029611 English 1840029617 (Uncle) Vanya, Barker's radical rewriting of Chekhov's classic, brought him more controversy than most of his other works put together. Interrogating not so much Chekhov's text as the use to which society has put it, Barker turns Vanya's defeat into victory and converts a play of sadness into a tragedy of desire. A House of Correction is a meditation on cause and effect. Set on the eve of a war which may destroy a society, the seemingly arbitrary arrival of a messenger with a vital communication sets off an agonizing train of events in the lives of three desperate women.Few works of drama can have plumbed the depths of solitude and rage that characterize Let Me, a nightmare set on the frontiers of the Roman Empire during the barbarian invasions.Biblical narratives serve as the origin of two shorter works, of which Judith is a contemporary classic of cultural conflict, a reinterpretation of the status of the heroine in Israel's war of survival against the Assyrians. In Lot and His God, the imminent destruction of Sodom simultaneously licenses the moral decay of an angel and the erotic epiphany of an adored wife., The latest volume in Oberon's Howard Barker series comprises the playsJudith, (Uncle) Vanya, A House of Correction and Hurts Given and Received.Barker is also a poet and theorist of theatre, whose 'Theatre of Catastrophe' has defined a new form of tragedy for our times and has had a significant impact in the fields of literary and theatre studies.Judith tells the story from the Biblical Apocrypha of the Jewish heroine Judith and the conquering Babylonian general Holofernes. (Uncle) VanyaA House of Correction is set on the eve of a world war. Hurts Given and Received is one of Barker's newest plays.