Screaming in Advance: A Festival of New Work by Howard Barker

Influential grump Howard Barker returns to The Print Room – the site, last year, of an acclaimed production of his 'Lot and His God' – for a two-day festival of new work presented as staged readings. 'Concentration' (May 3, 3pm), directed by Barker himself, is an intense poetic treatment of two murderous lovers. 'In the Depths of Love' (May 3, 7.30pm) is a fable about a Chinese feudal poet who presides over a bottomless well. 'Dying in the Street' (May 4, 3pm) explores the death-wish of a community and 'Distance' (Sat 4, 7.30pm) is an intense chamber piece inspired by the upcoming centenary of the outbreak of WW1.