A WOUNDED KNIFE
gan HOWARD BARKER
CYFARWYDDWYD gan DAVID IAN RABEY
Y perfformiadau cyntaf yn Saesneg o ddrama ddiweddar gan
Howard Barker – ‘Britain's greatest living playwright’ - The Times.
Mae A Wounded Knife yn brofiad dramataidd llawn tyndra a chyffro sy’n archwilio telerau bywyd a marwolaeth, gan asio cymeriadau cryfion a hiwmor cwbl ddidostur mewn stori fyw am obsesiwn rhywiol a diffyg cymrodedd. Yn yr enghraifft hynod ddiddorol a gafaelgar hon o ddrama Barker, mae llofrudd anedifeiriol yn derbyn maddeuant gan dywysog anwadal, dyn a yrrir i brofi ei derfynau’i hun a’r bobl o’i gwmpas (sy’n cynnwys gweddw ddengar, teiliwr dialgar a llawfeddyges lofruddiol). Mae A Wounded Knife yn archwilio peryglon cariad a chwestiynau o gyfiawnder, mewn golygfeydd sy’n gyforiog o wrthdaro erotig a herio damcaniaethol, yn gomig ond hefyd yn frawychus.
Ar 21ain Hydref 2009, fe fydd The Wrestling School, y cwmni a grëwyd er mwyn cyflwyno gwaith Howard Barker, yn dathlu ei benblwydd yn 21 trwy gynnal gŵyl rhyngwladol o’i waith. Ar y diwrnod hwn, fe fydd The Wrestling School ynghyd â chwmnïau mewn 21 o wledydd ar draws y byd (gan gynnwys yr RSC yn Llundain) yn perfformio dramâu cyfan neu ddarnau detholedig o waith Howard Barker. Mae Bold Productions a Chwmni’r Gwir sy’n Llechu/Lurking Truth Theatre Company yn eithriadol falch i gydweithio er mwyn cyflwyno cyfraniad Cymru i’r ŵyl '21 for 21'.
Bold Productions &
Cwmni’r Gwir sy’n Llechu/Lurking Truth Theatre Company
Hydref 21ain – 24ain
Canolfan y Celfyddydau Aberystwyth
Swyddfa Docynnau – 01970 623232
The first English-language performances of a recent play by Howard Barker – ‘Britain's greatest living playwright’ - The Times.
A tense and compelling dramatic enquiry into the terms of life and death, A Wounded Knife brings together strong characters and shockingly unsentimental humour in a vivid story of sexual fixation and remorselessness. In this highly intriguing and engaging example of Barker’s distinctive drama, an unrepentant murderer is given a new lease of life by an unpredictable prince, who is driven to test the limits of others and himself, including a seductive widow, a revenge-driven tailor and a lethal surgeon. A Wounded Knife explores the dangers of love and questions of justice, in scenes rich with the tangles of eroticism and speculation, which prove both comic and terrifying.
On 21st October 2009 Howard Barker's The Wrestling School are celebrating their 21st birthday with a truly international festival. On this day The Wrestling School along with companies in 21 countries across the globe including the RSC in London will be performing complete works or extracts from Howard Barker’s plays. Bold Productions and Lurking Truth Theatre Company are delighted to be collaborating on the Wales entry in '21 for 21'.
Bold Productions &
Lurking Truth Theatre Company
October 21st – 24th
Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Box Office – 01970 623232
 artistic policy-polisi artistig : To arrest, fascinate and seduce audiences beyond the current fear of art which is not defined by tourism and utilitarian community celebration (of what, for whom, at whose behest?).
To demonstrate the self-renewing immediacy of theatrical performance in which language is a promise written in the air and physicality is the ballet of manifested courage.
To achieve a production style that is appropriate to the uniqueness of the play rather than to the reassuring familiarities of theatrical convention
To show how complexity can, in theatre as in other matters, actually be more enjoyable and exciting than predictability, and how theatre can be a living triumph of the artificial, which is what human beings do best.
brief history -hanes cryno : Presenting new work written by the Artistic Director or exhilerating re-evaluations of major works by modern dramatists neglected in a climate of theatrical cowardice.
We will be presenting the English-language premiere of Howard Barker’s A Wounded Knife (in a co-production with Bold Productions), first on 10 July as a rehearsed reading for delegates at the conference ‘Howard Barker’s Art of the Theatre’ (10-12 July, Aberystwyth University Dept. of Theatre, Film and Television Studies; for details, please see http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/tfts/research/res-grp-ymch/drama-res-group/barker-conf/); and thereafter as a public full production at Aberystwyth Arts Centre Studio, 21-24 October 2009 |
