Howard Barker
Howard Barker
Howard Barker is a British playwright...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth28 June 1946
beautiful pain character
It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither accident, nor malformation, nor malice, nor misunderstanding, that it is integral to the human character both in its inflicting and in its suffering, this terrible sense Tragedy alone has articulated, and will continue to articulate, and in so doing, make beautiful…
character sympathetic
I don't like sympathetic characters.
character anxiety achievement
Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.