Blok/Eko
By: Howard Barker
Series: Oberon modern plays
Publisher: Oberon Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9781849431101
Subjects: English drama
Description: "A large-scale drama about death and its status in the world. Eko, an ageing despot, seemingly on a whim liquidates the entire medical profession, asserting that consolation--in the form of song--is a better way with sickness than drugs or surgery. A connoisseur herself, she knows great song is itself the distillation of suffering and so deliberately exposes her greatest poet Tot to a life of crime, poverty and humiliation in order to extract from him his finest work."--Page 4 of cover.