Death, the One and the Art of Theatre
in this deceptively slight volume, Howard Barker writes with an unprecedented emotional immediacy and arc of conceptual ambition.... Death, the One and the Art of Theatre represents an important advance on Arguments for a Theatre ... surpassing even the range and depth of the earlier collection.... A landmark achievement
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David Ian Rabey, University of Wales AberystwythHoward Barker is an internationally renowned playwright whose works are regularly produced throughout Europe and the US. He is widely known for his controversial and satirical explorations into contemporary tragedy, and his anti-Brechtian focus on the irrational and the catastrophic. He is often credited as a major influence on the generation of playwrights which includes Sarah Kane and Mark Ravenhill.Death, the One and the Art of Theatre is the latest collection of Barker's distinctive and revelatory philosophical musings on theatre. It is a stunning array of speculations, deductions, prose poems and poetic apercus, which cast a unique and unflinching light on the nature of tragedy, eroticism, love and theatre.
Exploring the juncture between aesthetics and metaphysics, the books looks at the human experience of love and death as life at its most intrinsically theatrical. It is a profoundly unsettling and inspiring piece of writing which extends Barker's challenge to orthodox morality first presented in Arguments for a Theatre-which he described as men and women's secret longing for the incomprehensible nature of pain.
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Director Joseph Brooks (THE LORDS OF FLATBUSH) also wrote and produced this story of a young woman's determination to follow her showbiz dreams. Laurie Robinson (Didi Conn, GREASE) doesn't want to follow in her famous comedian father's footsteps. Desiring her own career as an actress and singer, she breaks off an engagement with her hometown sweetheart and hits the road. After auditioning for a film role, she quickly finds herself in an ill-fated relationship with the director. The memorable title song was a million-selling hit for Debby Boone and went on to win an Academy Award for Best Song.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreenFull ScreenAudio: Dolby Digital Mono - English Dolby Digital Mono - FrenchInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Selection
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Take a trip back to the 1980s with this collection of breakdance films.BREAKIN': Kelly's a dedicated dance student. When she hooks up with celebrated breakdancers Ozone and Turbo, there's no telling how far the three of them can go. Today it's the L.A. club scene, tomorrow it may be Broadway. The music score features the hits, Breakin'...There's No Stoppin Us, and Freakshow on the Dance Floor.BREAKIN' 2: All the gang from the original Breakin' movie is back, and this time they're up against a greedy developer who wants to turn their community center into a shopping mall.BEAT STREET: The troubles of ghetto life are accurately captured in this cinematic time capsule, one of the first films to contain rap music. At the time, the rapping took a back seat to the break dancing and one of the many attributes of BEAT STREET is the authentic street moves on display. The locations also retain their street cred, with graffiti covering subway cars and abandoned buildings populating the mean streets. The story concerns a group of Bronx teens using their dancing, rapping, and artistic skills to lift themselves out of the ghetto. Musician Harry Belafonte teamed with David Picker to produce.
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