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Hated Nightfall and Wounds to the Face (Playscripts) by Howard Barker (1-Mar-1994) Paperback
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First published March 1, 1994
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Howard Barker
123 books28 followersHoward 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.
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September 17, 2015
Barker's company, The Wrestliing School, says of Hated Nightfall:
"Seventy years after the murder in 1918 of the Russian Imperial Family at the hands of the Bolsheviks, their remains were offcially discovered in the woods near Ekaterinburg. Alongside them lay two additional unidentified human bodies... Taking this as a starting point, Hated Nightfall is Howard Barker’s bold speculation on one of history’s greatest secrets; an imaginative recreation of the last hours of the Romanoffs, a doomed family caught in the chaos of civil war. Trapped in the hands of its enemies, a Royal Family, argues and barters for its life, but with a man who appears to be both saint and sadist. Dancer, the former tutor of the Royal children, is now an agent of the revolution invited by Lenin himself to oversee the execution, but compelled by an elusive mission of his own. Hated Nightfall contains classic Barker themes; a lyrical, passionate study of innocence, sexuality and sophistication in the midst of turmoil."
and of Wounds to the face:
"What do we mean by 'losing face'? And what if it were literal? Wounds to the Face Howard Barker's controversial new work explores the way in which we see ourselves and others through the character of the human face. The physiognomy of the face is central to our relationship with the outside world. It is the first thing we see when meeting strangers and the first they see of us. How we interpret that face affects our preception of others and ultimately influences almost all aspects of human behaviour."
"Seventy years after the murder in 1918 of the Russian Imperial Family at the hands of the Bolsheviks, their remains were offcially discovered in the woods near Ekaterinburg. Alongside them lay two additional unidentified human bodies... Taking this as a starting point, Hated Nightfall is Howard Barker’s bold speculation on one of history’s greatest secrets; an imaginative recreation of the last hours of the Romanoffs, a doomed family caught in the chaos of civil war. Trapped in the hands of its enemies, a Royal Family, argues and barters for its life, but with a man who appears to be both saint and sadist. Dancer, the former tutor of the Royal children, is now an agent of the revolution invited by Lenin himself to oversee the execution, but compelled by an elusive mission of his own. Hated Nightfall contains classic Barker themes; a lyrical, passionate study of innocence, sexuality and sophistication in the midst of turmoil."
and of Wounds to the face:
"What do we mean by 'losing face'? And what if it were literal? Wounds to the Face Howard Barker's controversial new work explores the way in which we see ourselves and others through the character of the human face. The physiognomy of the face is central to our relationship with the outside world. It is the first thing we see when meeting strangers and the first they see of us. How we interpret that face affects our preception of others and ultimately influences almost all aspects of human behaviour."
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