From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Kenneth Victor Campbell 10 December 1941 31 August 2008 was an English writer actor director and comedian known for his work in experimental theatreHe has been called a oneman dynamo of British theatre Campbell achieved notoriety in the 1970s for his ninehour adaptation of the sciencefiction trilogy Illuminatus and his 22hour staging of Neil Orams 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 oneman 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 halfcentury 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Campbell licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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