In a harsh, relentless ride through history, Howard Barker’s No End of Blame: Scenes of Overcoming explores the role of the artist in society and the struggle for freedom of expression.
Starting with a harrowing depiction of war with an attempted rape and a near execution in the Carpathian Mountains during WWI, the protagonist is the brilliant Hungarian political cartoonist Bela Veracek (loosely based on the celebrated German cartoonist Victor Weisz). Running from Hungary at the end of the First World War to the newly emergent Soviet Union and then to a pre-WWII Britain, Bela is constantly at odds with the governments he lampoons, and the newspapers that admire his talent, but expect conformity and absolute submission.
No End of Blame is a provocative play of ideas and a scathing commentary about the censorship of art.
BY HOWARD BARKER
DIRECTED BY RICHARD ROMAGNOLI
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