I never ‘say’ anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being ‘said’.
About Howard Barker
Howard Barkeris a British playwright, screenwriter and writer of radio drama, painter, poet, and essayist, writing predominantly on playwriting and the theatre. The author of an extensive body of dramatic works since the 1970s, he is best known for his plays Scenes from an Execution, Victory, The Castle, The Possibilities, The Europeans, Judith and Gertrude – The Cry as well as being a founding member of, primary playwright for and stage designer for British theatre company The Wrestling School.
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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.
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I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.
British playwright
I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.
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I never ‘say’ anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being ‘said’.
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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.
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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.
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