The legendary
Ken Campbell has died. Interested in
everything, apparantly. Just as excited to visit
Damanhur as he was to go to
CERN, just down the road. Fluent in Bislama, the creole of Vanuatu, into which he translated
Macbeth. Founder of the Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool, which performed epic productions of
The Warp,
Illuminatus! and
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Not quite Doctor Who (he was beaten to the role by former protogé Sylvester McCoy). A fount of knowledge on the theatre, comedy, Fortean strangeness and science and anything else you care to mention, all of which he spun together with extensive flights of imagination into glorious, hilarious one-man shows. Totally irreplaceable, and devastating loss.
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posted by Grangousier
on Sep 1, 2008 -
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