Quotes by Howard Barker

Howard Barker

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

Certain

Ordeals

Play

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.

Elements

Impossible

Theatre

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it’s speculative.

Believe

Speech

Way

I don’t like sympathetic characters.

Character

Sympathetic

I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.

Political

Prejudice

Views

I never ‘say’ anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being ‘said’.

Said

Say Anything

World

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

Play

Rejection

Theatre

I’m not interested in entertainment.

Entertainment

Not Interested

I’m not interested in observed reality.

Not Interested

Reality

I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.

Biblical

Important

Taken

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Quotes by Howard Barker

Howard Barker

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it’s speculative.

I don’t like sympathetic characters.

I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.

I never ‘say’ anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being ‘said’.

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

I’m not interested in entertainment.

I’m not interested in observed reality.

I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.

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