Howard Barker
Howard Barker
Howard Barker is a British playwright...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth28 June 1946
play certain ordeals
A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,
play rejection theatre
I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.
art pain giving
Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain of life. It is unsentimental, it takes us seriously as human beings, it is not condescending. Paradoxically, by seeing pain we are made greater, it becomes a need.
believe speech way
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.
lying musical tragedy
You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool
character sympathetic
I don't like sympathetic characters.