Howard Barker plays at Aberystwyth University
Lecturers and students at Aberystwyth University’s Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies will this week be presenting the first performances of Howard Barker’s compendium of plays, The Forty. The production, which will be performed at the Theatr y Castell from 7th-10th December, is one of seven projects led by lecturers and practitioners in the Department and works with mentoring final-year Drama and Theatre students. Playwright Howard Baker will attend Thursday’s performance and he, together with the play’s director, Professor David Ian Rabey, will engage in a question and answer session in the theatre following the performance. Professor Rabey, Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Aberystwyth University explains: “This production of The Forty brings together both staff and students at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies to perform one of our Honorary Professors. Barker's explorations of both the singular moment and the limits of language achie...