A Style and Its Origins
Publisher: Oberon Books
Published: December 26, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9781840027181
Subjects: Drama texts: from c 1900 -; Drama; Biography / Autobiography; Plays; Entertainment & Performing Arts - Theatre; Personal Memoirs; Theater - Direction & Production; Drama / General; General; 20th century; Biography; Dramatists, English; Production and direction; Theater
Description: "Howard Barker's alter-ego Eduardo Houth first materialised as the photographer of publicity images for Barker's theatre company The Wrestling School, one among many fictional identities assumed by him to screen a range of his activities, including set and costume design. Writing of himself in the third person and in the historic tense, Barker/Houth achieves a fluency and an uncommon measure of objectivity, though objectivity is scarcely part of his intention. The result is a unique exercise in self-description, partisan but without the shrill self-justification so common in authentic autobiography. Barker/Houth's A Style and Its Origins is a literary creation, as befits its authorial origins; it is also a document of total originality and a rich source of dramatic and aesthetic history."--Jacket.
Notes: Oberon Book