Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety. Howard Barker Read Quote
I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently. Howard Barker Read Quote
I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them. Howard Barker Read Quote
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it’s speculative. Howard Barker Read Quote
I never ‘say’ anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being ‘said’. Howard Barker Read Quote
We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets. Howard Barker Read Quote
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. Howard Barker Read Quote
