Ken Campbell: The Great Caper, The Authorised Biography - Couverture souple

Coveney, Michael

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9781848420762: Ken Campbell: The Great Caper, The Authorised Biography

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ISBN 10 : 1848420765 ISBN 13 : 9781848420762

Editeur : Nick Hern Books, 2011

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Ken Campbell: The Great Caper The first, authorised biography of the anarchic comic genius, much cherished for his performances on stage and screen. Alternately inspiring and jaw-dropping, The Great Caper is the story of a unique and inimitable talent in British theatre. Full description

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The first, authorised biography of the anarchic comic genius, much cherished for his performances on stage and screen. Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. Ken Campbell (1941-2008) was a one-man whirlwind who tore through the British theatre establishment using well-rehearsed anarchy and a genius for surreal comedy. Starting out in rep at Stoke-on-Trent, he founded the Ken Campbell Road Show, whose members included the then-unknown Bob Hoskins and Sylvester McCoy, and which toured pubs and clubs with dramatised urban myths and shaggy-dog stories. His later shows included Illuminatus! the first show at the National Theatre s studio and the 22-hour The Warp, the longest play in the world. On television he played corrupt lawyer Alex Gladwell in the 1970s series Law and Order, and was Alf Garnett s neighbour Fred Johnson in the sitcom In Sickness and in Health. He later found a devoted audience with his mesmerising one-man shows, which he toured worldwide. Theatre critic Michael Coveney was given unrestricted access to Campbell's letters, notebooks and original scripts. From these and from interviews with Campbell's many devoted/bemused collaborators, he has chronicled the life of the anarchic and uncompromising genius that was Ken Campbell. Alternately inspiring and jaw-dropping, The Great Caper is the story of a unique and inimitable talent in British theatre.

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Ken Campbell, 66 when he died in 2008 of a heart attack near his Swiss chalet in Epping Forest, was a great British eccentric. But as Michael Coveney's delightful biography also makes clear, the actor-cum-writer-cum-director can't so easily be categorised, patronised and dismissed. (Ken Campbell: The Great Caper) brings Campbell affectionately, hilariously yet not uncritically, to life... top marks. --The Times

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