Dead Hands

By: Howard Barker

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Paperback | 19 October 2004

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72 Pages

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Howard Barker's play for three actors and a corpse exemplifies both his dramatic method and his philosophical concerns. Rejecting all forms of social realism, his plays are celebrations of speech in theatre, swooping from heightened artifice to coarse slang in the space of a sentence. Dead Hands also reveals his continuing obsession with the concept of free will, particularly insofar as it affects sexuality.
The protagonist Eff arrives too late to be present at the death of his father. Instead he is immediately preoccupied with the mischievous idea of seducing the dead man's mistress. Barker's disturbing revelation is that death - far from oppressing the spirit of those who witness it - produces a surge of passion for existence that is exaggerated and even grotesque. In this instance, Eff's ecstasy is accompanied and then undermined by a growing suspicion that he is being manipulated from beyond the grave. Is the woman genuinely drawn to Eff, or is she a sinister legacy?

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