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Riddler, Royal Architect in the City of Platea, is commissioned by Queen Praxis to protect the capital's defences from nameless barbarian hordes who have placed the city under siege. Riddler's strategies for delaying the impending cataclysm are ingenious, perhaps inspired... quite possibly insane. Is Riddler saving the city, or is she obliterating it from within? Hubris and months of conflict transmute her into a Nietzschean god. She inspires vitriol in some, and fanatical desire in others. How will her spoilt son, Attila, and her wild stalker, Seemore, trammel this woman's destiny? An exploration of the will to power, sexual energy and human motivation, A Hard Heart is an extraordinary fusion of rich language, challenging ideas, beauty, brutality, crushing tragedy and coruscating comedy. These elements converge on the outer edges of human experience to create Barker's Theatre of Catastrophe.

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Author: Howard Barker