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Irrational theatre : the challenge posed by the plays of Howard Barker for contemporary performance theory and practice
No full textThis study arose out of an awareness that contemporary performance theories
and production techniques were not appropriate to the plays of Howard
Barker. The first section, a comparison of Barker with Edward Bond,
attempts to 'situate' the former with reference to a major dramatist of the
seventies and early eighties. This reveals a number of significant
differences, including almost diametrically opposed conceptions of the
function of drama.
In the second section, I consider Barker against a wider background of
deconstructive and postmodernist thinking. As opposed to Bond's Brechtian
notion of a Rational theatre, I argue that Barker's theatre is irrational
and suggest that irrational interaction is Seduction. Barker's plays are
considered from the point of view of a theory of seduction - in particular
Jean Baudrillard's. There follows a review of a range of discourses on
performance by influential practitioners such as Stanislavsky. Although
seduction is identifiable in all their practices, it is almost universally
denied or shunned - except by Grotowski. Also the focus of acting technique
is invariably on the actor/character relation with little consideration of
interaction with others.
The third section considers in some detail two plays by Barker - JUDITH and
THE CASTLE, analysing them from a seductive perspective
Gene trees for orthologous groups from "The evolution of nitrogen fixation in cyanobacteria"
No full textPhylogenetic trees for the orthologous groups predicted across 49 taxa of Cyanobacteria and 16 Proteobacteria by Latysheva et al. (2012, Bioinformatics 28:603-606; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bts008) are provided here. For the 13854 groups containing at least three protein sequences, phylogenies were reconstructed as follows. Multiple alignment of protein sequences was performed using MAFFT (Katoh and Toh 2008, doi:10.1093/bib/bbn013), in "E-INS-I" mode with 1000 iterations. A phylogenetic model was selected for each protein multiple alignment by the Bayesian Information Criterion in MODELGENERATOR (Keane et al. 2006, doi:10.1186/1471-2148-6-29), with four Gamma-distributed rate categories for "+G" models. 200 bootstrap replicates of the multiple alignment were generated using seqboot in the PHYLIP package (Felsenstein, J. Distributed by the author. Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle). Using the selected model, phylogeny was reconstructed by maximum likelihood with PhyML (Guindon et al. 2010, doi:10.1093/sysbio/syq010), both for the original alignment and for the bootstrap replicates.mltrees.zip: 13584 unrooted ML trees in PHYLIP format. The start of each filename gives the orthologous group number. Tip labels in trees consist of the protein accession, followed by an underscore, then the three-letter abbreviation for the taxon. Orthologous group numbers and taxon abbreviations are as in Latysheva et al. (2012, 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts008).
bstrees.zip: 13584 bootstrap samples, each of 200 trees, in PHYLIP format. The start of each filename gives the orthologous group number. Tips are labelled as in mltrees.zip
Entrevista a Eileen Barker
No full textEileen Barker dóna classes de Sociologia de la Religió a la London School of Economies, havent-se especialitzat en l\u27anàlisi dels nous moviments religiosos i, concretament, en el procés de conversió als mateixos. La seva reputació professional és excel·lent. Ostenta el càrrec de Presidenta de la Societat per a l\u27Estudi de la Religió, organització d\u27abast internacional i reconegut prestigi. Entre les obres publicades per Eileen Barker es poden destacar les compilacions New Religious Movements: A Perspective for Understating Society (1982), Of Gods and Men: New Religious Movements in the West (1983) o els seus llibres The Making of a Moonie: Choice of Brainwashing? (1984) i New Religious Movements: A Practical Introduction (1989). L\u27autor de l\u27entrevista va arranjar una cita per fax amb la intenció de donar a conèixer alguns aspectes del pensament de Miss Barker. Les següents línies reprodueixen el contingut dels 15 minuts d\u27entrevista telefònica mantinguda des del seu hotel a Londres
World War I record of service survey for Bertrand D. Barker, signed 12 March 1924
No full textQuestionnaire about Bertrand Don Barker's service in World War I, 1917-1919, signed by Barker on 12 March 1924.Questionnaire originally part of a survey of Norwich University alumni conducted by a “Norwich in the World War” committee consisting of Charles N. Barber (chairman), Carl V. Woodbury, K.R.B. Flint, and Gustaf A. Nelson. Data from these questionnaires may have been used in a chapter of "Vermont in the world war, 1917-1919" by Harold P. Sheldon (1928). Transcription by Carina Berg. Transcriptions may be subject to error
As I stray\u27d from my cot at the close of the day [first line]
No full textPerformers: Barker FamilyPiano and Voice (with lyrics
Refuse to Dance. The theatre of Howard Barker - ACE165.5
No full textThe Castle Press Night. Sheila Fox of City Limits and Michael Billington of The Guardian discussing the play. He finds the play "ambiguous". She finds Barker "patronising". Benedict Nightingale talking about his reactions to Barker’s work. Barker. VO "But of course the plays contradict themselves. They have to contradict themselves…" Nightingale on The Castle. Mottram quotes an unsympathetic review by Milton Shulman and then says that the audience brings its own knowledge to a play. Calder believes that "Barker forces us to face reality…" McDiarmid "The newspapers are lies. The newspapers obviously…" Caption: "DOWNCHILD. Written in 1979." McDiarmid as the Art Critic, folding newspaper into a hat. "I thought, when I began my column, when I invented Cockie’s ‘Window on the World’, to set two squalors side by side…" Mottram suggesting that it’s important for audiences to be supportive of "this kind of play" in contemporary society
Perfils. Randy Barker: mestre de metges
No full textRandy Barker (EUA, 1939) és metge i professor al Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center de Baltimore, als Estats Units. El Centre ha estat un dels primers a fer del learning by doing un element programàtic, filosofia que, d’alguna manera, comparteix fonaments amb l’aprenentatge basat en problemes (ABP). Barker visita Girona perquè és membre del Consell Acadèmic Internacional de la Facultat de Medicina de la UdG, en la qual, a més, ha impartit la lliçó magistral Professionalisme i ensenyament de la medicin
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