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Plays, Prose, Pieces, Poetry: presented by Richard Ayoade
Richard Ayoade edits and introduces this defining work of the great midcentury visionary of stage and screen -- rediscovered and republished by Faber & Faber.
Comprising Hughes's monumental works for the stage, poetry, lyrics, interviews, acceptance speeches, written warnings and wordless sketches, this essential volume includes extensive critical reflections by leading critics Augustus Pink, Chloë Clifton-Wright, Richard Ayoade, Leslie Francis (director of . . . And?!), and Hughes's final wife, Lady Virginia Lovilocke.
Plays, Prose, Pieces, Poetry collects together, for the first time, the dramas that made Hughes's name adjectival, in all new fonts, and exhaustively punctuated according to the instructions left in his last will and testament.
Platform
Table
Roast
Roost
Prompt
Shunt
Flight
Dependence
See why some people are still calling Hughes 'the loudest playwright of his generation'.
Comprising Hughes's monumental works for the stage, poetry, lyrics, interviews, acceptance speeches, written warnings and wordless sketches, this essential volume includes extensive critical reflections by leading critics Augustus Pink, Chloë Clifton-Wright, Richard Ayoade, Leslie Francis (director of . . . And?!), and Hughes's final wife, Lady Virginia Lovilocke.
Plays, Prose, Pieces, Poetry collects together, for the first time, the dramas that made Hughes's name adjectival, in all new fonts, and exhaustively punctuated according to the instructions left in his last will and testament.
Platform
Table
Roast
Roost
Prompt
Shunt
Flight
Dependence
See why some people are still calling Hughes 'the loudest playwright of his generation'.
361 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 1, 2024
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February 22, 2025
After having thoroughly enjoyed Richard Ayoade’s ‘The Unfinished Harauld Hughes’, I was still in doubt wether to also read his accompanying three books with all the works by this fictional author. I decided to try this one, and for anyone ending up in the same situation: yes, if you enjoyed ‘The Unfinished Harauld Hughes’, reading this makes that book better. Some of these pseudo-Beckett-like plays are actually quite brilliant.
And yes, it gets a bit much, but that - and the insane amount of work that Ayoade put into creating this world - is also kind of the point.
Maybe the best thing would have been if ‘The Unfinished’ would have been a longer book, incorporating some of the “original” works. But oh well.
And yes, it gets a bit much, but that - and the insane amount of work that Ayoade put into creating this world - is also kind of the point.
Maybe the best thing would have been if ‘The Unfinished’ would have been a longer book, incorporating some of the “original” works. But oh well.
November 21, 2024
The fastest I’ve read 300 pages since probably middle school. Then again, I’ve never not been a fan of anything Richard’s put out.
December 18, 2025
I do love RAs humour but I think I prefer it in smaller doses. This took me a while to get through.
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews