{"product_id":"barker-howard-barker-9781840029611","title":"Barker: Plays Six: (Uncle) Vanya; A House of Correction; Let Me; Judith; Lot and His God","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes the plays Judith, (Uncle) Vanya, A House of Correction, Let Me and Lot and His God\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBarker's radical rewriting of Chekhov's classic \u003cb\u003eUncle Vanya \u003c\/b\u003ebrought him more controversy than most of his other works put together. Interrogating not so much Chekhov's text as the use to which society has put it, Barker turns Vanya's defeat into victory and converts a play of sadness into a tragedy of desire. \u003cb\u003eA House of Correction\u003c\/b\u003e is a meditation on cause and effect. Set on the eve of a war which may destroy a society, the seemingly arbitrary arrival of a messenger with a vital communication sets off an agonizing train of events in the lives of three desperate women. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFew works of drama can have plumbed the depths of solitude and rage that characterize \u003cb\u003eLet Me\u003c\/b\u003e, a nightmare set on the frontiers of the Roman Empire during the barbarian invasions. Biblical narratives serve as the origin of two shorter works, of which \u003cb\u003eJudith\u003c\/b\u003e is a contemporary classic of cultural conflict, a reinterpretation of the status of the heroine in Israel's war of survival against the Assyrians. In \u003cb\u003eLot and His God\u003c\/b\u003e, the imminent destruction of Sodom simultaneously licenses the moral decay of an angel and the erotic epiphany of an adored wife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Howard Barker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1840029617\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781840029611\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oberon Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/22\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Howard Barker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43984379674879,"sku":"9781840029611","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_92a54ac2-6caf-41cc-8c2b-4f5d48a3d22d.jpg?v=1683271977","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/barker-howard-barker-9781840029611","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}