Judith: Le Corps Séparé ; Vania

by Howard Barker

Dans ce sixime volume de ses oeuvres choisies, Howard Barker s'empare de deux mythes, l'un biblique, l'autre littraire, pour livrer sa vision du thtre de la condition humaine. Avec Judith, pisode biblique qui inspira nombre de peintres, on retrouve les thmes centraux de l'oeuvre de Barker : l'hrosme et la barbarie, la servitude et la domination, le dsir et la mort... Ici, le jeu de sduction se transforme en une lutte chaotique des sens et de la raison. Par cette joute verbale entre Judith et Holopherne o la sensualit affleure, il pose la question de la proprit des corps. Librement inspirs de l'oeuvre de Tchekhov, les personnages de Mania s'affranchissent ici d'un crateur qui les touffe. Ils rclament le droit d'exercer leur volont, se soustrayant ainsi la paralysie laquelle Tchekhov les a condamns. La fatalit de leur destine humaine, prsente dans l'oeuvre originelle, vole ici en clats, tandis que jaillissent leurs pulsions d'amour et de mort jusqu'alors inhibes.

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About the author

Howard Barker is an English playwright. His plays have been produced at the Royal Court, the RSC and the National Theatre, throughout Europe and the USA and by his own company, The Wrestling School. He is best known as the exponent of the Theatre of Catastrophe. He is a theatre theorist, a poet and a painter. His work has been the subject of a number of book-length studies and academic conferences.

Reviews

[Ali · Rating 3 out of 5]

Seeing the Uncle Vania's performance in 1995, (based on Chekhov's, directed by Barker himself), I became interested to read it, and I enjoyed, as I became interested to follow Barker's works and productions. He has also "Arguments for a theatre" which is about his theories about theatre and his method in performancing