Lot and His God

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"I came to the city. I saw the people were filthy. And those who were not filthy were still filthy" Sodom. The day before the city's total annihilation. Among the grimy tables of a run-down caf, an angel tells Lot that God wants him to flee, before the city is obliterated. However, Lot's irresistible wife has other ideas... As the angel and Lot's wife embark on a dangerous game of seduction, cruelty and desire, we are drawn ever deeper into the dark and impenetrable forest that is the marriage between Lot and the bewitching woman he worships

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"'The cult playwright's latest work - [is a] verbally dazzling subversion of the biblical story of Lot and his wife.' - Time Out 'The play is tough and knotty and brutal, but it is also compelling and intelligent and eloquent.' - The Arts Desk 'Meaty poetry.' - The Stage 'This is a Howard Barker play... so there are no answers. But there are plenty of sly questions - examining the messiness of being human and the mysteries of love and desire.' - The Guardian"

Author Bio

Howard Barker is an internationally renowned dramatist, whose first plays were performed at the Royal Court and by the RSC. Since 1992 his work has been presented by his own company The Wrestling School. Barkers theatre is characterized by its poetic, non-naturalistic form and inhabits worlds of contradiction, suffering and sexual passion. Barker is also a poet and theorist of theatre, whose Theatre of Catastrophe defines a new form of tragedy for our times.