Howard Barker is a playwright, poet, painter, director, designer and essayist. He is, in many people's opinion, our greatest living playwright. His work is extremely difficult to categorise. He has coined the term Theatre of Catastrophe and has argued for the reintroduction of the tragic mode. His style is unique - poetic, tragic, speculative, full of wild imagination, contradictions, anachronisms, dangerous ideas, ruptures in character, time and space, and in all of this the position and opinion of the playwright, what we are 'supposed to think', is totally uncertain.

Howard takes us through his work, his thoughts on writing and the history of philosophy.

He helps us understand his writing process and his commitment to the foundation of contradiction and uncertainty in artistic work.

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We talk to Steven Berkoff about his life and work.

Steven Berkoff was born on the 3rd of August 1937. He is an English actor, author, playwright, theatre practitioner and theatre director. He is a towering figure in the dramatic world.

Steven takes us through his earliest memories and tells us what he would do to pull the dramatic arts out of a 'quagmire of nothingness'.

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We sit down with Sebastian Milbank to discuss his thoughts on Goethe's Faust Part 1. Sebastian is a writer and Executive Editor of the magazine The Critic. Sebastian gave a response to our staged reading of Faust Part 1 in March in St Bartholomew the Great's church in Smithfield in London. We talk about why Goethe was so drawn to this myth and what the 'Faustian Man' might symbolise in the changing and developing epochs of our world.

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