The Playwrights Database
HANNAH BARKER
Nationality: Britishemail: n/a Website: n/a
Literary Agent: n/a
Hannah Barker is Co-artistic Director and co-founder of analogue and also works as a journalist and education facilitator. Hannah has written, directed and performed at the Edinburgh and Dublin Fringe festivals, the Pulse festival and in London at the Battersea Arts Centre, the National Theatre Studio, the Young Vic and the Hackney empire.
Buy Plays with Doollee
Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.AbeBooks.co.uk AbeBooks.com Stageplays.com amazon.com
amazon.co.uk
amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template
below is a list of Hannah Barker's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
2401 Objects Beachy Head Re-Enactments Stowaway2401 Objects
"Henry, are you awake?" Henry lives each day like the last. exactly like the last. every day, he tries to make sense of the world around him; the girl sitting on the lawn outside his window, the pages of a book filled with the same sentence, the 80 year old man looking at him in the mirror. In 2009 Patient H.M.'s brain is dissected live on the internet to a global audience of 400,000 people, cut into carefully preserved slices: manuscripts of tissue like the pages of a book. In 1953 Henry Molaison emerges from experimental brain surgery without any recollection of the last two years of his life or the ability to form new memories. In 1935 nine-year old Henry is knocked over by a bike, leaving him unconscious for five minutes. Following analogue's critically acclaimed Mile end and Beachy Head and inspired by the world's most important neuroscientific case-study, 2401 Objects tells the remarkable story of a man who could no longer remember, but who has proven impossible to forget.
Notes:
written by by Hannah Barker, Lewis Hetherington, Liam Jarvis, devised by the company. UK premiere Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh 03 Aug 2011
1st Produced:
Oldenburgisches StaatsTheater, Germany 17 Jun 2011
Organisations:
analogue
1st Published:
Oberon Books (2011) >>> 978-1849431958
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
piece
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of PageBeachy Head
It's been a month since Stephen stepped over the edge. there was no sign - no warning. amy collects her husband's effects, the things he had with him gathered in a single box. as memories of their last night together rewind, replay and unravel, she is desperate to find out why. Joe and Matt are making a documentary. Whilst reviewing their footage they make a startling discovery that will take their film in an unexpected direction - the blurred image of a man jumping from the cliffs. Beachy Head is a powerful look at the ripple effects of one man's decision. Mixing text, 3D animation and a dynamic physicality,
Notes:
script by Dan Rebellato, Emma Jowett And Lewis Hetherington, Hannah Barker, Liam Jarvis; devised by Analogue
1st Produced:
Organisations:
analogue/the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich/escalator east to edinburgh
1st Published:
Oberon Books, London (2011) >>> 978-1849430128
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Piece
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of PageRe-Enactments
Synopsis:
Re-Enactments is an interactive audio performance that casts its audience, a small group of eight participants, as the 're-enactors' of the narrator's story. Via headphones, the re-enactors receive instructions for action, speech and navigation through the cavernous basement space beneath the imposing Shoreditch Town Hall building. The voice inside the headphones belongs to a patient who has recently recovered from a serious brain trauma. They have undergone extensive physiotherapy since the accident in order to be able to move again. But their movements now feels over-rehearsed and second-hand; ever since the accident the narrator has felt like an 'actor' rehearsing to be themselves again in a world that now feels like a television show. The images on the television seem more real than the world that the narrator's body belongs to. To feel real again, the narrator must stage a re-enactment. To live inside the images onscreen. Your reality and that of the narrator's are about to meet. Inspired by Charlie Kauffman's Synecdoche, New York and Tom McCarthy's novel Remainder and emerging from research into the condition of depersonalisation and derealisation undertaken at Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study, Germany.
Notes:
Written by Liam Jarvis (with contributions from Hannah Barker). 4-week writing and development process in the basement of Shoreditch Town Hall, culminating in a 1 week run of the finished work in October, 2013. 8-week research process undertaken by Liam Jarvis as Artist in Residence at Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmehorst, Germany into dissociative conditions. This culminated in a short work-in-progress performance at the Upstairs Gallery in Oldenburg on 23rd September, 2012.2-weeks of research and development leading to a work-in-progress showing as part of The Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Awards on 13th October, 2012
1st Produced:
Shoreditch Town Hall, London Oct 2013
Organisations:
analogue
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
interactive audio performance
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
Further Reference:
Top of PageStowaway
Synopsis:
A man wakes, face down, sprawled across his single bed, the sunlight gently creeping through the window. Today is the day he will change his life. A man conceals himself in the wheel arch of a commercial flight. He is a stowaway on a flight from India to the UK. He freezes to death, 35,000 feet above the ground, and as the plane approaches its destination and the landing gear is released, his body is tipped out into the clear morning sky. As he falls, he crashes through history, through time, through fiction and non-fiction. His descent takes us from the end of the 18th century to the height of the British Raj, from the eve of the 2012 cabinet reshuffle, to a place beyond time where the sun and earth converse. The body lands in the car park of a DIY superstore in an affluent suburb of London, and crashes into someone else's world. Stowaway is a story of one man from India, born of a history moulded by the hands of our ancestors; a history we struggle to talk about; and a history we have failed to resolve.
Notes:
Written and directed by Hannah Barker and Lewis Hetherington. Development at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 2013
1st Produced:
- -
Organisations:
analogue/the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich/escalator east to edinburgh
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
piece
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of Page