Howard Barker
Howard Barker
Howard Barker is a British playwright...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth28 June 1946
say-anything world said
I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.
beautiful secret theatre
We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.
writing dark light
When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.
reality not-interested
I'm not interested in observed reality.
beautiful pain character
It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither accident, nor malformation, nor malice, nor misunderstanding, that it is integral to the human character both in its inflicting and in its suffering, this terrible sense Tragedy alone has articulated, and will continue to articulate, and in so doing, make beautiful…
artist self self-destructive
The artist who makes himself accessible is self-destructive.