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Howard Barker
Profession : Playwright
Birth : June 28, 1946
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A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.
Howard Barker
I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.
Howard Barker
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.
Howard Barker
I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.
Howard Barker
I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.
Howard Barker
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.
Howard Barker
I'm not interested in entertainment.
Howard Barker
I don't like sympathetic characters.
Howard Barker
Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.
Howard Barker
I'm not interested in observed reality.
Howard Barker
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.
Howard Barker
I've often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.
Howard Barker