Judith by Howard Barker

Major Dramatic Question to answer in this play would be "Does Judith have complete power over her mind?" Through out the play there are instance where we can question the choices that Judith makes.
Judith seems like a woman to herself and quiet at the start of the play. The Servant is speaking for her as if Judith is mute but then Judith speaks to defend The Servant. Judith asks to speak and she nearly gave her cleverness away. The Servant is bate for the real weapon, but Judith still play as the shy woman who can seem to get it together. She starts to converse with Holofernes and Judith and The Servant's front for being in the tent is to be Holofernes' harlots. Judith gets naked and after she stars to converse with Holofernes with talk of battle, death, and cleaverness. As the talk carries on we see Holofernes fall for Judith and Judith doing the same. The Servant plays as a commentator for all these events. Then Judith and Holofernes nestles together. Then we find out the real truth behind Judith and The Servant's visit. This is when we question if Judith has complete power over her emotions. At the end we see her with raging power over The Servant and at this point I wonder at one or many moments did it go through her mind to not kill Holofernes. After Judith kills him she gets on top of his headless body and caress him as if he was alive, which gives me thought did she handle her emotions and feeling properly and appropriately. The next thing that questions her power in the vile situation is The Servant who is the ideologist convince her that she has the choice of being weak or being a great influence. At the end we see that she does gain power and control. 
Another thought that interest me is how the The Servant enjoyed Judith controlling her, which was like The Servant was experimenting on the power of killing can have on a person especially with cleverness to get back at their enemies. Judith and Holofernes sort of mirrored each other but the woman won at the end. Overall, I see this play about a woman's body over her mind.