Collected Plays Vol. 2: Includes Love of a Good Man, the Possibilities, Brutopia, Rome, Uncle Vanga, & Ten Dilemmas
By Howard Barker.
Description
Volume Two of the Collected Plays comprises six works, the earliest of which, The Love of a Good Man (1975), is an iconoclastic comedy whose theme - the mass burial of war dead - is explored both from the erotic and political point of view. Barker's The Possibilities (1988) are well-established in the international theatre repertoire; a series of ten pieces on irrationality and the limits of logic. The characters act against their own interests, but in doing so, both refine and compicate their humanity. The repuditation of humanist stereotypes in Brutopia (1989) reveals new elements in...
ISBN(s)
0714541826, 9780714541822
