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  • Howard Barker: Plays Twelve

    At Her Age and Hers; Landscape with Cries; Womanly; Four Dialogues; True Condition

    by Howard Barker ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    The theatre of Howard Barker subverts myth and invents history in its pursuit of the meaning of individual integrity. Repudiating politics and asserting the primacy of the emotions, Barker's tragedy is written in a language by turns poetic and brutally mundane. The effects are disconcerting and destabilizing, as he insists tragedy must be. The twelfth and final collection of plays from this ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Howard Barker: Plays Ten

    by Howard Barker ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    The tenth collection of plays by Howard Barker, one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of our time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. Plays Ten comprises the plays Ahno, Distance, Critique of Pure Feeling, Irrespective, Immense Kiss, Exquisite.In Ahno, A Prince of Now, a youthful dictator is revealed as simultaneously revolutionary and reactionary, in politics and in love ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Howard Barker: Plays Eleven

    1870; Dans le Palais Je; Deep Wives / Shallow Animals; Knowledge and a Girl

    by Howard Barker ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    The latest collection of plays from one of the most celebrated, influential and studied playwrights in the English-speaking world. Howard Barker's plays continue to challenge, unsettle and expose.Barker's theatre has never sought to reproduce the real world on stage, but 1870 is the first of his plays to be set in Hell. An executed traitor, whose passion for betrayal is akin to a faith, meets ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Howard Barker: Plays Nine

    Harrowing and Uplifting Interviews; In the Cloth Cathedral; In the Depths of Dead Love; More No Still

    by Howard Barker ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    The latest collection of plays by Howard Barker, one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of our time. Internationally renowned, his plays challenge, unsettle and expose.The latest volume in Oberon's Howard Barker series comprises the plays Harrowing and Uplifting Interviews, In the Cloth Cathedral, In the Depths of Dead Love and More No Still. ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Barker: Plays Eight

    The Bite of the Night; Brutopia; The Forty; Wonder and Worship in the Dying Ward

    by Howard Barker ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    The Trojan legend and the character of Helen form the basis for The Bite of the Night. As with all Barker’s mythical and historical works, it is overlaid and undermined by a contemporary narrative, in this instance the search for the origin of the erotic undertaken by the redundant university teacher Dr Savage and his nihilistic student, Hogbin. Through all twelve Troys, Savage and Helen struggle ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Arguments for a Theatre

    (4th edition)

    by Howard Barker ...
    This new edition of Barker’s seminal text Arguments for a Theatre outlinesthe theory and practice of his ‘Theatre of Catastrophe’. Author of over thirty plays, Howard Barker has long been an implacable foe of the liberal British establishment, and champion of radical theatre world-wide. His best-known plays are The Castle, Scenes from an Execution and The Possibilities. All his plays are ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Death, The One and the Art of Theatre

    by Howard Barker ...
    Death, The One and the Art of Theatre is the latest collection of Barkers distinctive and revelatory philosophical musings on theatre. It is a stunning array of speculations, deductions, prose poems and poetic aperçus that casts a unique and unflinching light on the nature of tragedy, eroticism, love and theatre. Exploring the juncture between aesthetics and metaphysics, the book looks at the ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Cell and Gene Therapies for Neurologic Diseases

    by Howard J. Federoff, Roger A. Barker ...
    Series Book 205 - Handbook of Clinical Neurology
    Cell and Gene Therapies for Neurologic Diseases, Volume 205 comprehensively covers the scientific background, translational efforts, clinical developments and registered biologics that have entered into clinical practice. Coverage includes types of therapies available and in development, and best practice uses for a variety of neurological disorders including Parkinson's, Huntington's, ALS, stroke ... Read more

    $247.49 USD

  • I Have Always Loved Older Women…

    Stories for a Memoir

    by Howard C. Barker ...
    I’ve Always Loved Older Women is an intimate memoir written by Howard Barker. Born in 1924, he shares stories of growing up in rural Mississippi, the tragic loss of both his parents at the age of seven, serving in the military during World War II, surviving an exciting life of a starving artist in New York City, and finally becoming a successful set designer in theater, television, and film. He ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Swift Return

    by Fiona Barker ...
    Illustrated by Howard Gray ...
    Aria has her head in the clouds. Yusuf keeps his feet on the ground. But when they work together to save a bird who has lost her way, something magical happens. When Swift loses her way on her epic migration. Aria and Yusuf come to her rescue and are inspired to think big about looking after the sky above their city. Inspired by Fiona and Howard’s love for wildlife of all kinds, A Swift Return is ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Setsuko and the Song of the Sea

    by Fiona Barker ...
    Illustrated by Howard Gray ...
    Setsuko loves the sea. She swims its shallows. She dives its depths. But she worries that her friends have chosen to abandon her way of life. Then she meets a whale who also fears he is the last of his kind. In return for giving him hope, he gifts her a song which she uses to remind people of the beauty of the ocean. Setsuko took the song and made it her own. They played together from the first ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Euripides, Wesley Enoch ...
    A richly poetic adaptation of Euripides' Medea that blends the cultures of Ancient Greek and Indigenous storytelling to weave a bold and breathtaking commentary on contemporary experience. ... Read more

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