The Plays
The plays - obscure perhaps, but with the texts becoming available and productions becoming more prevalent, the canon of pre-film work stands for assessment...
See this page for details of our "Plays Project" with Clive - can you help??
Voodoo
(school - 1967)Inferno
(school - 1967)Neongonebony
(school - 1968)The Holly And The Ivy
(school - 1970)Is There Anybody There?
(1972)Hunters In The Snow
(Hydra Theatre Company, 1973)Salome
(1973?)A Private Apocalypse
(1973?)The Scream Of The Ape
(1974)The Fish Bride
(Theatre Of The Imagination, 1974)Poe
(Theatre Of The Imagination, 1974)The Egg
(Theatre Of The Imagination, 1974)Grunewald's Crucifixion
(Theatre Of The Imagination, 1974)A Dream
(Theatre Of The Imagination, 1974)The Wolfman
(Theatre Of The Imagination, 1974)A Clowns' Sodom
(The Mute Pantomime Theatre, 1976)Day Of The Dog
(The Mute Pantomime Theatre, 1977)The Magician
(The Dog Company, 1977)The Sack
(The Dog Company, 1978)Dog
(The Dog Company, 1979)Nightlives
(The Dog Company, 1980)History Of The Devil
(The Dog Company, 1981)Dangerous World
(The Dog Company, 1981)Paradise Street
(The Dog Company, 1981)Frankenstein In Love
(The Dog Company, 1982)The Secret Life Of Cartoons
(The Dog Company, 1982)Crazyface
(Cockpit Youth Theatre, 1982)Subtle Bodies
(Cockpit Youth Theatre, 1983)Colossus
(Cockpit Youth Theatre, 1983)
Note : Early plays were highly collaborative but from at least A Clown's Sodom onwards scripts were essentially written by Barker (with the exception of Dangerous World being a collection of the words of William Blake put together by Doug Bradley and Oliver Parker).
Click here for Barker's comments on the playsClick here for a bibliography for Incarnations
Click here for a bibliography for Forms Of Heaven
Note : Barker interviews used in this section of Revelations are listed (by year) in the 'Interviews' section of the site. A note of those interviews which are available on-line in their entirety is made in that section and the full text can be reached via the 'Links' section.
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