Arguments for a Theatre () by Howard Barker

Author:Howard Barker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: OBERON BOOKS Ltd

On plethora

The work of art is not digestible

but

overwhelms

systems of consumption

evaluation

use

repair

The ordering of experience

is

posterior

not

anterior to

the event

Therefore the artistic experience must

be new

in form

In the era of access

bowdlerization

democratic simplification

only

plethora

refutes accessibility

Plethora

is

the art of excess

made necessary by the

so discreet provision of subject matter

relevance

conscience

and

tastefulness

Excess is the enemy of taste

not tastelessness

In excess

theatre proclaims its divorce

from

the myth of ordered life

Too many narratives

too many digressions

too many themes

being the condition

of

willing surrender

The play of plethora

being a poem

cannot be reduced

not being

a communiqué

cannot

be

abbreviated

acknowledged

or

approved

It

is not a despatch from a battle

delivered by an actor on a horse

(‘the writer says to advance! ‘)

But

a flood

breaching the dike

of

common experience

and

inundating

the ordered pasture

of

communicable material

(society)

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