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The Reluctant Escapologist by Mike Bradwell is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Reluctant Escapologist about?

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 The Living Theatre; eating fire with Bob Hoskins; becoming an underwater escapologist (reluctantly) in the Ken Campbell Roadshow; creating Hull Truck; and doing battle with the Health and Safety brigade, the funding bodies and a Polish heavy-metal disco during his ten years running the famous Bush Theatre in West London. 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-div

Author

Mike Bradwell

Language

EN