The Castle

Description

Howard Barker's play The Castle is an epic work blasting, with humor, bawdiness, violence, and the limits of desire, pain, and sexuality. After an absence of seven years, a group of Crusaders returns "home" to find authority, religion. and human relations all upended.  The Theatre Program continues to explore this controversial writer for audiences in Middlebury and New York at PTP/NYC. "Barker’s visceral explosion of sex and armaments… It’s pure oxygen time again. Prepare to be wowed." --Bob Mondello, NPR. Directed by Richard Romagnoli. Sponsored by the Theatre Program. For mature audiences only: strong adult language and imagery. Tickets $12/10/6; on sale April 15.