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The Reluctant Escapologist

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Description for The Reluctant Escapologist Paperback. Presents an inside account of forty years of Fringe Theatre. This book provides an account of working with theatre legends such as Mike Leigh and Ken Campbell and the story of running a pre-eminent London Fringe venue, The Bush Theatre. Num Pages: 302 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 24. Weight in Grams: 452.

An unrivalled unofficial history of the rise – and partial fall – of fringe theatre, Mike Bradwell's deadpan account of his adventures is one of the funniest and angriest books to come out of theatre today. Winner of the 2010 Theatre Book Prize awarded by the Society for Theatre Research.

As he travels through a counterculture peopled by nutters, chancers, dreamers and prophets, Bradwell makes us marvel at his resilience and creativity, captured in a succession of vivid – and often laugh-out- loud – episodes such as: creating a character with Mike Leigh; enjoying the onstage mass orgasms of ... Read more

Bradwell is a passionate champion of the alternative as well as an admired and successful director. He makes a compelling – and urgent – case for preserving the true and subversive spirit of theatre from castration at the hands of bankers, consultants, stakeholders, cultural-diversity compliance monitors and the Arts Council. 

'Towards the end of this brilliant account of his epic forty-year journey, Mike tells us, 'I don't believe that theatre is safe in the hands of grown-ups', and it is his healthy, eternal youthfulness that makes the book so inspiring' Mike Leigh, from his Foreword

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Product Details

Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
302
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854595386
SKU
V9781854595386
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Ref
99-10

About Mike Bradwell
Mike Bradwell is a leading theatre director. He founded Hull Truck Theatre Company in 1971, was Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre from 1996 until 2007, and continues to work widely as a freelance director.

Reviews for The Reluctant Escapologist
'Inimitably filthy, achingly funny... Bradwell is one of the most colourful figures in theatre today'
Ian Herbert
The Stage
'Both a history and a pointer to the future of theatre, written by one of its most courageous and effective champions'
Theatres Magazine
'Funny and rude, bloody-minded and undervalued, much like the theatre to which he ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Reluctant Escapologist


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