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In this hurricane of wilful acts and domestic revenge the dance of the nurses and the passing of a survivor of Auschwitz build a surreal, startling and thought provoking ballet of ideas, images and powerfully poetic language. Howard Barker’s approach with Found In The Ground is unique in his recent work; startling, grotesque, stimulating, an exhilarating challenge to both language and design but threaded with a cruel black comedy and a host of characters whose all too human weaknesses, dreams and desires we all too readily recognise. Found In The Ground will be at Riverside Studios in London 21 for 21
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Found In The Ground is Howard Barker’s most experimental and innovative play conceived for the stage. A cast of 9 actors and a chorus of 5 will create a continuously revolving kaleidoscope of bodies, sounds and gesture based around two strong images; a trio of guard dogs and a blazing bonfire. The dogs belong to a dying former Nuremberg judge turned senile delinquent. The bonfire was formerly his antiquarian library. While he rejoices in this wilful act of desecration, his daughter creates a new vocation for herself intended to bring comfort to the terminally ill. The dogs are handled by a war criminal who along with five nurses serve the judge.