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==Works== ===Stage plays=== * ''Cheek'' (1970) * ''No One Was Saved'' (1970) β Script unpublished * ''Edward β the Final Days'' (1972) β Script unpublished * ''Alpha Alpha'' (1972) β Script unpublished * ''Faceache'' (1972) β Script unpublished * ''Skipper'' (1973) β Script unpublished * ''My Sister and I'' (1973) β Script unpublished * ''Rule Britannia'' (1973) β Script unpublished * ''Bang'' (1973) β Script unpublished * ''Claw'' (1975) * ''Stripwell'' (1975) * ''Wax'' (1976) β Script unpublished * ''Fair Slaughter'' (1977) * ''That Good Between Us'' (1977) * ''Birth on a Hard Shoulder'' (1977) * ''Downchild'' (1977) * ''The Hang of the Gaol'' (1978) * ''The Love of a Good Man'' (1978) * ''The Loud Boy's Life'' (1980) * ''Crimes in Hot Countries'' (1980) (also performed as ''Twice Dead'') * ''No End of Blame'' (1981) * ''The Poor Man's Friend'' (1981) * ''The Power of the Dog'' (1981) * ''Victory'' (1983) * ''A Passion in Six Days'' (1983) * ''[[The Castle (play)|The Castle]]'' (1985) * ''[[Women Beware Women]]'', adaptation of [[Thomas Middleton]] (1986) * ''The Possibilities'' (1986) * ''The Bite of the Night'' (1986) * ''The Europeans'' (1987) * ''The Last Supper'' (1988) * ''Rome'' (1989) * ''Seven Lears''(1989) * ''Golgo'' (1989) * ''(Uncle) Vanya'', adaptation of [[Chekhov]]'s ''[[Uncle Vanya]]'' (1991) * ''Ten Dilemas in the Life of a God'' (1992) * ''[[Judith: A Parting from the Body]]'' (1992) * ''Ego in Arcadia'' (1992) * ''A Hard Heart'' (1992) * ''Minna'', adaptation of [[Gotthold Ephraim Lessing|Lessing's]] ''[[Minna von Barnhelm]]'' (1993) * ''All He Fears'', a specialist play for [[marionettes]] (1993) *''The Early Hours of a Reviled Man'' *''Stalingrad'' *''12 Encounters with a Prodigy'' *''The Twelfth Battle of Isonzo'' (2001) *''Found in the Ground'' *''The Swing at Night'', a specialist play for [[marionettes]] (2001) *''Knowledge and a Girl'' *''Hated Nightfall'' and ''Wounds to the Face'' (1995) *''The Gaoler's Ache for the Nearly Dead'' (1997) *''Ursula; Fear of the Estuary'' (1998) *''Und'' (1999) *''The Ecstatic Bible'' (2000) Prizewinner Adelaide International Festival co-production Brink Theatre (SA) and Wrestling School *''He Stumbled'' (2000) *''A House of Correction'' (2001) *''[[Gertrude - The Cry]]'' (2002) *''13 Objects'' and ''Summer School'' (2003) *''Dead Hands'' (2004) *''The Fence in Its Thousandth Year'' (2005) *''[[The Seduction of Almighty God by the Boy Priest Loftus in the Abbey of Calcetto, 1539]]'' (2006) *''Christ's Dog'' (2006) *''The Forty (Few Words)'' (2006) *''I Saw Myself'' (2008) *''[[The Dying of Today]]'' (2008) *''A Wounded Knife'' (2009) ===Radio plays=== * ''One afternoon on the 63rd level of the north face of the pyramid of Cheops the Great'' (1970) β Script unpublished. * ''Henry V in two parts'' (1971) β Script unpublished. * ''Herman, with Mille and Mick'' (1972) β Script unpublished. * ''[[Scenes from an Execution]]'' (1984) * ''The Early Hours of a Reviled Man'' (1990) * ''A Hard Heart'' (1992) * ''A House of Correction'' (1999) * ''Albertina'' (1999) * ''Knowledge and a Girl'' (2002) * ''The Moving and the Still'' (2003) β Broadcast in 2004. * ''The Quick and the Dead'', [[BBC Radio 3|Radio 3]] (2004) * ''Two skulls'', broadcast on Danish radio (2005) * ''The Road, The House, The Road'' (2006) broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]] to commemorate his sixtieth birthday. * ''Let Me'' (2006) broadcast to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the Third Programme (Radio 3) ===Television plays and films=== * ''Cows'' (1972) * ''[[Made (1972 film)|Made (1972)]]'' feature film based on his play ''No One Was Saved''. * ''Mutinies'' (1974) * ''The Chauffeur and the Lady'' (1974) * ''Prowling Offensive'' (1975) β not transmitted * ''Conrod'' * ''[[Aces High (film)|Aces High]]'' (1976) feature film adapted from [[R.C. Sheriff]]'s play ''[[Journey's End]]''. * ''Heroes of Labour'' (1976) β unproduced * ''All Bleeding'' (1976) β unproduced * ''Credentials of a Sympathiser'' (1976) * ''Sympathiser'' (1977) β unproduced * ''Russia'' (1977) β unproduced * ''Heaven'' (1978) β unproduced * ''Pity in History'' (1984) * ''The Blow'', film (1985) * ''Brutopia'' (1989) * ''Christ's Dog'' (2011) short film adapted from his play of the same name. * ''In Mid Wickedness'' (2013) short film in the [[Georgian language]] adapted from his play ''The Forty''. * ''Not Him'' (2014) short film based on Barker's short play of the same name from ''The Possibilities''. * ''Don't Exaggerate'' (2015) short film adapted from Howard Barker's work of the same name. ===Other writings=== Barker has also authored several volumes of poetry (''Don't Exaggerate'', ''The Breath of the Crowd'', ''Gary the Thief'', ''Lullabies for the Impatient'', ''The Ascent of Monte Grappa'', and ''The Tortman Diaries''), an opera (''Terrible Mouth'' with music by [[Nigel Osborne]]), the text for ''Flesh and Blood'', a dramatic scene for two singers and orchestra by [[David Sawer]], and three collections of writings on the theatre (''Arguments for a Theatre'', ''Death, The One and The Art of Theatre'', ''A Style And Its Origins'').
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