{"product_id":"howard-barker-howard-barker-9781786829696","title":"Howard Barker: Plays Eleven: 1870; Dans Le Palais Je; Deep Wives \/ Shallow Animals; Knowledge and a Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe latest collection of plays from one of the most celebrated, influential and studied playwrights in the English-speaking world. Howard Barker's plays continue to challenge, unsettle and expose. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBarker's theatre has never sought to reproduce the real world on stage, but \u003ci\u003e1870 \u003c\/i\u003eis the first of his plays to be set in Hell. An executed traitor, whose passion for betrayal is akin to a faith, meets other victims of that terrible year in a sordid room. Inevitably they are inspected by God, but in a shape none could have predicted and only he can delight in. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDans Le Palais Je, \u003c\/i\u003e Barker's nihilistic landowner at once establishes a different tone as she survives waves of social unrest and outbids the cruel with her own cruelty. In this chaos, she relies on the delivery of obscure but meaningful words which arrive in sealed envelopes to prepare her for a succession of ordeals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeep Wives\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Knowledge and a Girl\u003c\/i\u003e are short pieces, firmly established in the European theatre repertoire. In the first, a revolutionary movement called the Alterations puts a rich woman in the hands of her servants. The body, and its political meanings, is at the heart of this uncanny work, written for two actresses and a mechanical dog. In\u003ci\u003e Knowledge and a Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, Barker reinterprets the Snow White fable from the perspective of the Stepmother.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Howard Barker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 178682969X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781786829696\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oberon Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.08w x 0.91d","brand":"Howard Barker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44080163193087,"sku":"9781786829696","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bacf04d2-1e3e-464b-9331-42943d49930d.jpg?v=1685485283","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/howard-barker-howard-barker-9781786829696","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}