Composers and their stage works 


Howard BARKER

(1946 -

English playwright born June 28, 1946 London, educated at Battersea Grammar School and Sussex University from where he graduated in history.

Stage Works
  1. Cheek (produced 1970)
  2. No One Was Saved (produced 1971)
  3. Edward: the Final Days (produced 1971)
  4. Faceache (produced 1971)
  5. Alpha Alpha (produced 1972)
  6. Private Parts (produced 1972).
  7. Skipper, and My Sister and I (produced 1973).
  8. Rule Britannia (produced 1973).
  9. Bang (produced 1973).
  10. Claw (produced 1975)
  11. Stripwell (produced 1975)
  12. Wax (produced 1976).
  13. Aces High (screenplay). 1976.
  14. Fair Slaughter (produced 1977)
  15. That Good Between Us (produced 1977)
  16. The Love of a Good Man (produced 1978)
  17. The Hang of the Gaol (produced 1978)
  18. The Loud Boy's Life (produced 1980)
  19. Birth on a Hard Shoulder (produced 1980)
  20. No End of Blame: Scenes of Overcoming (produced 1981). 1981.
  21. The Poor Man's Friend (produced 1981).
  22. Two Plays for the Right. 1982.
  23. Victory: Choices in Reaction (produced 1983). 1983.
  24. A Passion in Six Days (produced 1983)
  25. The Power of the Dog (produced 1984). 1985.
  26. Don't Exaggerate (produced 1984). 1985.
  27. Scenes from an Execution (broadcast 1984; produced 1990)
  28. Crimes in Hot Countries (produced 1985)
  29. Downchild (produced 1985)
  30. The Castle (produced 1985)
  31. Pity in History (televised 1985; produced 1986)
  32. Women Beware Women, adaptation of the play by Thomas Middleton (produced 1986). 1986
  33. The Last Supper (produced 1988). 1988.
  34. The Bite of the Night (produced 1988). 1988.
  35. The Possibilities (10 plays) (produced 1988). 1988.
  36. Golgo (produced 1989)
  37. Seven Lears (produced 1989)
  38. The Europeans 1990.
  39. A Hard Heart (broadcast 1992; produced 1992). 1992.
  40. All He Fears (produced 1993).
  41. Hated Nightfall (produced 1994)
  42. Wounds To the Face (produced 1994)
  43. He Stumbled (2000)
SCREENPLAYS:
  • Made, 1972;
  • Rape of Tamar, 1973;
  • Aces High, 1976
RADIO PLAYS:
  1. One Afternoon on the North Face of the 63rd Level of the Pyramid of Cheops the Great, 1970;
  2. Henry V in Two Parts, 1971;
  3. Herman with Millie and Mick, 1972;
  4. Scenes from an Execution, 1984;
  5. The Early Hours of a Reviled Man, 1990;
  6. A Hard Heart, 1992.
TELEVISION PLAYS:
  1. Cows, 1972;
  2. The Chauffeur and the Lady, 1972;
  3. Mutinies 1974;
  4. Pity in History, 1985.

VERSE

The Breath of the Crowd. 1986.

Gary the Thief/Gary Upright. 1987.

Lullabies for the Impatient. 1989.

The Ascent of Monte Grappa. 1991.

OTHER

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