Refuse to Dance : The Theatre of Howard Barker

United Kingdom, 1986

Film
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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.

Credits

co-producer

Arts Council of Great Britain

Ann Foreman

Language

English

Duration

00:53:00:00

Colour

Colour

ACMI Identifier

35128

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

Sound/audio

Sound

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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