New Theatre Quarterly 70: Volume 18, Part 2

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Clive Barker, Simon Trussler
Cambridge University Press, Dec 12, 2002 - Drama - 104 pages
New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. Articles in volume 70 provisionally include: A Farewell to Jan Kott; Raised and Written in Contradiction: the Final Interview, Arden and Absolute Milan: Jan Kott and the Kinds of Exile, The Maker and the Tool: High Culture, Popular Culture, and the Work of Charles Parker, Re-Placing the Audience: a Survey of Site-Specific Theatre in Britain.
 

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Jan Kott and John McGrath
99
the Final Interview
103
Arden and Absolute Milan
121
Theatre and Democracy
133
a Survey of SiteSpecific Performance in Britain
140
the Japanese Production of Ria O
161
the Passageway in Noh and Greek Theatres
176
Carnival Cultural Identity and Mustapha Maturas Play Mas
186
NTQ Book Reviews
196
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About the author (2002)

Critics of the horror story have frequently called Clive Barker the "British Stephen King". Born in Liverpool in 1952, Barker attended the University of Liverpool but moved to London in 1977, where he worked as a commercial artist and became involved with the avant-garde theatrical community. Primarily a playwright during this period, he also produced short fiction that he would eventually publish as part of his six-volume collection titled Books of Blood (1984-85). More than any other author of contemporary horror fiction, Barker has had a major impact on the direction of the genre. He has introduced strong elements of sex and graphic violence into his fiction, but these elements are employed with an artistic objective. Barker underscores his work with complex subtextual metaphors and artistic allusions. Preoccupied with the craft of writing and with its effect on the reader, Barker is an innovator of formula and genre, often parodying the former in order to change the philosophical contour of the latter. Barker has achieved commercial success not only with his short fiction but also with his novels, which tend to be epic in scope and to blend elements of horror with those of high fantasy. Barker is one of the more influential voices in horror cinema, having written and directed a number of films. His printed works include The Candle in the Cloud, Absolute Midnight, The Scarlet Gospels, and Black is the Devil's Rainbow: Tales of a Journeyman. His films include Dread, Tortured Souls: Animae Damanatae, and Hellraiser.

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