Howard Barker's art of theatre

1. Introduction: The ultimate matter of style – David Ian Rabey
2. Performance within performance: Howard Barker and the acted life – some thoughts – Melanie Jessop
3. Unearthly powers of invention: speech, report and repetition in recent Wrestling School productions – James Reynolds
4. Reinventing ‘grand narratives’: Barker’s challenge to postmodernism – Elisabeth Angel-Perez
5. Institutions, icons and the body in Barker’s plays, 1977–86 – Ian Cooper
6. Access to the body: the theatre of revelation in Beckett, Foreman, and Barker – George Hunka
7. ‘Not nude but naked’: nakedness and nudity in Barker’s drama – Eléonore Obis
8. Places of punishment: surveillance, reason and desire in the plays of Howard Barker – Michael Mangan
9. Barker, criticism and the philosophy of ‘The art of theatre’ – Mark Brown
10. Staging Barker in France 2009 – Christine Kiehl
11. 21 for 21: A breakthrough moment in terms of the global theatre-making community’s collaborative capacity? – Sarah Goldingay
12. I saw myself: artist and critic meet in the mirror – Mary Karen Dahl
13. ‘His niece or his sister’: genealogical uncertainties and literary filiation in Barker’s Gertrude – The Cry – Vanasay Khamphommala
14. History in the age of fracture: catastrophic time in Barker’s The Bite of the Night – Jay Gipson-King
15. The dying of today and the meta-stases of language: from history to tale to play to mise-en-scène – Elizabeth Sakellaridou
16. ‘The substrata of experience’: Barker’s poetry, 1988–2008 – David Ian Rabey
17. Reading Howard Barker’s pictorial art – Charles Lamb
18. Howard Barker’s paintings, poems and plays: ‘in the deed itself’, or the triple excavation of the unchangeable – Michel Morel
19. Memories of paintings in Howard Barker’s theatre – Heiner Zimmermann
20. The sunless garden of the unconsoled: some destinations beyond catastrophe – Howard Barker
21. Howard Barker and David Ian Rabey in conversation, New York 2010
Appendix: Howard Barker: chronology and bibliography
Index