Refuse to Dance. The theatre of Howard Barker - ACE165.3

John Calder of Calder & Boyers gives his reasons for publishing Barker’s work. Caption: "VICTORY. Choices in Reaction. The Royal Court, 1983." Still. Professor Eric Mottram, London University, talks of Barker as being a playwright who breaks the shibboleths and leaves the audience feeling "damaged". McDiarmid. "…Free words from louts and professors." Mottram talking about Barker’s use of language. McDiarmid reading Don’t Exaggerate; A Political Statement in the Form of Hysteria. Cora Kaplan, Lecturer, Sussex University, on Barker’s "language of the self". Excerpt from No End of Blame, written in 1980. Paul Freeman as Bela. Kaplan commenting on No End of Blame and on Scenes from an Excecution. Caption: "SCENES FROM AN EXECUTION won his first major award – the Prix Italia for radio drama. Actors Maggie Steed and Elizabeth Rider seen firstly as shadows, then reading. Steed talking with Kaplan about Barker empowering his female characters. Caption: "The English knight compels an Arab engineer to build his fortress, and a wayward priest to return to his church." Excerpt from The Castle. Stucley, Krak, Nailer and Batter (McDiarmid, Paul Freeman, Tony Mathews, Steve Swinscoe).