Refuse to Dance : The Theatre of Howard Barker

This film focuses on the season of Barker’s work produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican in 1985. It juxtaposes extracts from the plays with comments from actors, directors and critics. However, it makes no attempt to pin an evaluation of the work to the personality or biography of the writer.

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Collection

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Credits

co-producer

Ann Foreman

Arts Council of Great Britain

Duration

00:53:00:00

Production places

United Kingdom

Production dates

1986

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

300261

Language

English

Subject categories

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain

Literature → English literature

Literature → Literature

Music & Performing Arts → Barker, Howard

Music & Performing Arts → Performing arts

People → Barker, Howard

Short films

Short films → Short films - Great Britain

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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United Kingdom, 1986

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