The duo later went on to form the Illuminatus!-inspired electronica band The KLF. Bill Drummond designed sets for the show, and it was eventually seen (when it moved to London, with Bill Nighy then joining the cast) by the young Jimmy Cauty. Broadbent alone played more than a dozen characters in the play. The 23-strong cast featured several actors, such as Jim Broadbent, David Rappaport and Chris Langham, who went on to successful film, stage and television careers. In thanks, Wilson dedicated his Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977) to 'Ken Campbell and the Science-Fiction Theatre Of Liverpool, England.' I've come to the conclusion that this isn't literature. I was thunderstruck at what a magnificent job they did in capturing the exact tone and mixture of fantasy and reality in the book. Wilson was delighted with the adaptation, saying: The first night of the London version featured Robert Anton Wilson, accompanied by Shea, as a naked extra in the witches' sabbat scene. It had first opened in Liverpool on 23 November 1976. It became the very first production at the National's Cottesloe Theatre space, running from 4 March to 27 March 1977. The Man Who Murdered God Walpurgisnacht Rock and Leviathan) each consisting of five 23-minute-long acts. An audacious proposal by the English experimental theater director and actor Ken Campbell to stage Illuminatus! in its entirety at The National Theatre in London was met with surprisingly open arms, given its inordinate length: a cycle of five plays (The Eye of the Pyramid Swift Kick Inc. Ââ¦akin to some of the work of Thomas Pynchonâ¦Illuminatus! is one of the great American satires.â - Berkeley Barb ÂAll the ingredients: kinky sex, raunchy language, and a fantasy plot that oscillated between a schizoid nightmare and a psychedelic dream.' â Booklist

I loved it.' â Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone A hundred pages in I couldnât figure out why I was wasting my time with this nonsenseâ¦after three hundred I was having too much fun to quit, and by the end I was eager to believe every word â even if the only conspiracy at work here is Shea and Wilsonâs devilish exploitation of our need to made ordered sense out of everything under the sunâ¦. 'The longest shaggy joke in literary historyâ¦. 'This book's as freaked out as they come and a gas of a read.' â Publisher's Weekly Kether - Eschaton : Confrontation Bombing : A Heavy Case : Hexagram 23. in the first of a new series of Books-at-Beat-Time, enrique che pelligro proudly presents book 1, chapter 1.1 of the ILLUMINATUS trilogy by robert shea and robert anton wilson, read by ken campbell and chris fairbank to beats supplied by rob303 from his youtube playlist noomtunes.

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