Clive Barker

Born October 5th, 1952 in Liverpool, very near Penny Lane, the street to which The Beatles dedicated one of their most famous songs, Clive Barker is a writer, essayist, playwright, filmmaker and painter. In his words, he acknowledges “My artistic ideal is Jean Cocteau he made movies, wrote novels and plays, painted pictures... But what he said was it’s all one business, it´s all one process: it’s all being a poet”. Some of his outstanding theater pieces are … (plus)