Includes the plays Victory; The Europeans; The Possibilities and Scenes from an Execution.Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge; unsettle and expose. These plays are among his best-known works; and their energy; poetic language and imagination have fixed them firmly in the international repertoire.Exploring the tragic form defined by Barker as Theatre of Catastrophe; three of the plays speculate on human behaviour in moments of historical crisis. Victory is set in the English Civil War and follows the ethical voyage of a widow towards personal reconstruction. The Europeans takes one of the great eruptions of Islamic imperialism as the background for a young womans insistence on her right to her own identity. Scenes from an Execution shows the struggle of an independently-minded artist against the power of the Venetian state.The Possibilities; a disturbing series of short plays set in various times and cultures; reveals Barkers unconventional way with moral dilemmas.
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