A Style and Its Origins

Howard Barker''s alter-ego Eduardo Houth first materialized as the photographer of publicity images for Barker''s theatre company The Wrestling School, one among many fictional identities assumed by him to screen a range of his activities, including set and costume design. Writing about himself in the third person and in the past tense, the result is a unique exercise in self-description.

Howard Barker is an internationally renowned dramatist, whose first plays were performed at Royal Court Theatre and by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Since 1992 his work has been presented by his own company The Wrestling School. Barker is also a poet and theorist of theatre, whose ’Theatre of Catastrophe’ defines a new form of tragedy for our times.