Ken Campbell
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Kenneth Victor Campbell (10 December 1941 – 31 August 2008) was an English writer, actor, director and comedian known for his work in experimental theatre.He has been called "a one-man dynamo of British theatre."
Campbell achieved notoriety in the 1970s for his nine-hour adaptation of the science-fiction trilogy Illuminatus! and his 22-hour staging of Neil Oram's play cycle The Warp. The Guinness Book of Records listed the latter as the longest play in the world. The Independent said that, "In the 1990s, through a series of sprawling monologues packed with arcane information and freakish speculations on the nature of reality, he became something approaching a grand old man of the fringe, though without ever discarding his inner enfant terrible." The Times labelled Campbell a one-man whirlwind of comic and surreal performance. The Guardian, in a posthumous tribute, judged him to be "one of the most original and unclassifiable talents in the British theatre of the past half-century. A genius at producing shows on a shoestring and honing the improvisational capabilities of the actors who were brave enough to work with him." The artistic director of the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse said, "He was the door through which many hundreds of kindred souls entered a madder, braver, brighter, funnier and more complex universe."
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Kenneth Victor Campbell (10 December 1941 – 31 August 2008) was an English writer, actor, director and comedian known for his work in experimental theatre.He has been called "a one-man dynamo of British theatre."
Campbell achieved notoriety in the 1970s for his nine-hour adaptation of the science-fiction trilogy Illuminatus! and his 22-hour staging of Neil Oram's play cycle The Warp. The Guinness Book of Records listed the latter as the longest play in the world. The Independent said that, "In the 1990s, through a series of sprawling monologues packed with arcane information and freakish speculations on the nature of reality, he became something approaching a grand old man of the fringe, though without ever discarding his inner enfant terrible." The Times labelled Campbell a one-man whirlwind of comic and surreal performance. The Guardian, in a posthumous tribute, judged him to be "one of the most original and unclassifiable talents in the British theatre of the past half-century. A genius at producing shows on a shoestring and honing the improvisational capabilities of the actors who were brave enough to work with him." The artistic director of the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse said, "He was the door through which many hundreds of kindred souls entered a madder, braver, brighter, funnier and more complex universe."
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Known for
Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
Creep
Baby Bob
The Skulls
Saving Grace
Alice in Wonderland
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
Extraordinary Visitor
Hard Men
Middlemarch
Heartbeat
A Different Hand
Secret Nation
Wings of Fame
Scandal
A Fish Called Wanda
Smart Money
Lovejoy
Letter to Brezhnev
A Zed & Two Noughts
Joshua Then and Now
In Sickness and in Health
The Moon Over Soho
The Bride
Home to Roost
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
In the Secret State
Unfair Exchanges
The Bill
Sherlock Holmes
Private Schulz
Breaking Glass
The Gentle Touch
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Minder
The Tempest
Phoelix
The Last Window Cleaner
Dinner at the Sporting Club
Law & Order
An Audience with...
The Professionals
Secret Service
The Story of Pantomime
The Mound Builders
Justine by the Marquis de Sade
Fawlty Towers
The Rules of the Game
The Ken Campbell Roadshow
The Big Flame
Uncle Silas
Inspector Clouseau
Poor Cow
Mystery and Imagination