Howard Barker: Plays Eleven

The latest collection of plays from one of the most celebrated, influential and studied playwrights in the English-speaking world. Howard Barker''s plays continue to challenge, unsettle and expose.

Barker''s theatre has never sought to reproduce the real world on stage, but 1870 is the first of his plays to be set in Hell. An executed traitor, whose passion for betrayal is akin to a faith, meets ot...