Arguments pour un théâtre

With Arguments for a Theater' the English playwright Howard Barker signs one of the most important theoretical texts of our time. In it, he rethinks tragedy' deemed obsolete in its Aristotelian form' and substitutes a new concept: the theater of Catastrophe. In his uncompromising prose, or in aphorisms of dazzling and provocative poetry, or in poems, Barker sketches out a "new theatrical practice", eminently tragic, subversive and epiphanic, with beauty and pain at its core. He insists on the need to imagine a theatrical poetry' springing from the depths of desire. Theater once again becomes' far from commercial lights' far from message plays' the place that gives man back his share of mystery' the place of the human. A theatrical art' therefore a philosophy.