Howard Barker and The Wrestling School have been seen as marginal to the major concerns of British theatre, problematic in their staging and challenging in the ideas they explore. Yet Barker's writing career spans six decades, he is the only living writer to have been accorded an entire season with [...]

The book will collect together a series of interviews conducted with the dramatist and poet Howard Barker throughout the course of his career. It is intended that the book give a strong sense of the development of Barker's thinking over the roughly three decades it covers.[...]