Editing Clive Barker (section)

== Theatrical work ==
Barker's involvement in live theatre began while still in school with productions of ''Voodoo'' and ''Inferno'' in 1967. He collaborated on six plays with ''Theatre of the Imagination'' in 1974 and two more that he was the sole writer of, ''A Clowns' Sodom'' and ''Day of the Dog,'' for ''The Mute Pantomime Theatre'' in 1976 and 1977.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.clivebarker.info/playsindex.html|title=The Official Clive Barker Website – Revelations – Theatre|website=www.clivebarker.info|access-date=12 November 2019}}</ref>

Barker co-founded the avant-garde theatrical troupe The Dog Company in 1978 with former schoolmates and up-and-coming actors, many of whom would go on to become key collaborators in his film work; [[Doug Bradley]], his long-time friend and former classmate at [[Calderstones School|Quarry Bank High School]] in Liverpool, took on the now-iconic role of [[Pinhead (Hellraiser)|Pinhead]] in the ''[[Hellraiser (franchise)|Hellraiser]]'' series while Peter Atkins wrote the scripts for the first three ''Hellraiser'' sequels.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w4I2DwAAQBAJ&q=dog+company+members&pg=PA196|title=Horror Literature through History: An Encyclopedia of the Stories that Speak to Our Deepest Fears [2 volumes]|last=Cardin|first=Matt|date=21 September 2017|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9781440842023|language=en}}</ref> Over the next five years Barker wrote nine plays, often serving as director, including some of his best-known stage productions, ''The History of The Devil'', ''Frankenstein in Love'', and ''The Secret Life of Cartoons''.<ref name=":0" />

From 1982 to 1983, he wrote ''Crazyface'', ''Subtle Bodies'', and ''Colossus'' for the Cockpit Youth Theatre.<ref name=":0" />

His theatrical work came to a close as he shifted focus to writing the ''[[Books of Blood]]''.