Scenes from an Execution - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Howard BarkerSeries:Oberon Modern PlaysPublish date:2013-02-26Pages:80
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Oberon BooksISBN-13:9781849434683ISBN-10:1849434689UPC:9781849434683Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.20 x 5.00 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.25Product ID:SC1A9ASEZG
Commissioned to paint a vast canvas celebrating the triumphant Battle of Lepanto, the free-spirited Galactia creates instead a breathtaking scene of war-torn carnage. In her fierce determination to stay true to herself, she alienates the authorities and faces incarceration. Her younger lover Carpeta is approached to take over and seizes the assignment for himself.
Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution makes sixteenth-century Venice the setting for a fearless exploration of sexual politics and the timeless tension between personal ambition and moral responsibility, between the patron's demands and the artist's autonomy. Art is opinion, and opinion is the source of all authority. This edition includes a new essay by Howard Barker, entitled The Sunless Garden of the Unconsolled: Some Destinations Beyond CatastropheLanguages:EnglishPublisher:Oberon BooksISBN-13:9781849434683ISBN-10:1849434689UPC:9781849434683Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.20 x 5.00 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.25Product ID:SC1A9ASEZG
Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. The energy, poetic language and imagination of his plays have fixed them firmly in the international repertoire. He is studied much at secondary and university level education.
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