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Howard Barker - Blok/Eko - 9781849431101 - V9781849431101
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Blok/Eko

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Description for Blok/Eko Paperback. A provocative new play by international dramatist, poet and theorist, Howard Barker. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 159.
Howard Barker’s theatre is characterized by its tragic scale and its distinctive way of exposing the unconscious resistances that underlie apparent social unanimity, both in the sexual and political spheres. Barker’s play, BLOK/EKO, is a large-scale drama about death and its status in the world. Eko, an ageing despot, seemingly on a whim liquidates the entire medical profession, asserting that consolation – in the form of song – is a better way with sickness than drugs or surgery. A connoisseur herself, she knows great song is itself the distillation of suffering and so deliberately exposes her greatest poet Tot ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849431101
SKU
V9781849431101
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5

About Howard Barker
Howard Barker is an internationally renowned dramatist, whose first plays were performed at the Royal Court and by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Since 1992 his work has been presented by his own company The Wrestling School. Barker’s theatre is characterized by its poetic, non-naturalistic form and inhabits worlds of contradiction, suffering and sexual passion. Barker is also a poet and ... Read more

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