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It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither accident, nor malformation, nor malice, nor misunderstanding, that it is integral to the human character both in its inflicting and in its suffering, this terrible sense Tragedy alone has articulated, and will continue to articulate, and in so doing, make beautiful…

Howard Barker

You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool

Howard Barker

Howard Barker

Howard Barker

Born: June 28, 1946 (age 79)

Bio: Howard Barker is a British playwright, screenwriter and writer of radio drama, poet, and essayist writing predominantly on playwriting and the theatre.

Known for:

Scenes From An Execution
Arguments for a theatre (1989)
Gertrude – The Cry (2002)
Death, the one and the art of theatre (2004)
A style and its origins (2007)

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