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The reluctant escapologist : adventures in alternative theatre / Mike Bradwell.

Title
The reluctant escapologist : adventures in alternative theatre / Mike Bradwell.
Author
Bradwell, Mike.
Publication
London : Nick Hern, 2010.

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Description
xvii, 302 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
An unofficial history of the rise - and partial fall - of fringe theatre. Mike Bradwell captures episodes such as creating a character for Mike Leigh, witnessing on-stage mass orgasms of the Living Theatre in the 60s, teaching Bob Hoskins how to eat fire and becoming an escapologist (reluctantly).
Subject
  • Bradwell, Mike
  • Hull Truck Theatre Company
  • Bush Theatre (London, England)
  • Experimental theater > Great Britain > History
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Autobiographies
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Games for May -- Who Put the Cunt in Scunthorpe? -- Hello Sadness -- The Untameable Rhinoceros -- High Windows -- Hello Prestatyn -- The Ghost of Electricity -- Moving Swiftly On -- Here Comes the New Boss -- Same as the Old Boss.
ISBN
  • 9781854595386 (pbk.)
  • 1854595385 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 527339997
  • SCSB-12830289
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library