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Howard Barker: 'I have contempt for messages in plays. I'm not trying to influence anyone' by Mark Lawson

In the past, his plays have enraged the right. But Howard Barker's new foes are liberals " angry at the 'yellowface' casting in his latest work. Why is he so unbothered?At the bottom of the Brighton street where Howard Barker lives is the seafront house that once belonged to Terence Rattigan. It is hard to imagine two more contrasting English dramatists. Rattigan wrote elegant dramas of the English upper classes, inc…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM on January 20, 2017

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