death

Photo: Bruce Liron

An incredible thing happened at St. James last night as part of the International Howard Barker 21421 Festival:

• an intimate, disturbing and politically-charged theatre experience
• nine performers - participants - with whom it is a privilege to work
• more participants - our audience - who were also an integral part of the action
• a promenade experience that forced total engagement
• a shocking Barker story with infinite resonance for the 21st century
• an installatory theatre-first for Jersey
• WWII bomb sites, chelsea, fortnum & mason and institutional environments created

"We should all like to choose our deaths, both the moment and the manner. We should like to control this as all the episodes of life. But death is not an episode of life, it is beyond life and nothing that pertains to life pertains to death. It was the same with the birth agony. We were coming into a place. With death we are going into a place. Or, if we are not going into a place, certainly we are leaving one."

death, the one and the art of theatre by Howard Barker

(London: Routledge, 2005)

LONG LIVE NOEL BILEDEW

LONG LIVE NOEL BILEDEWS

LONG LIVE CLAW

DEATH

CLAW