Richard Ayoade's fictional quest to rescue Harauld Hughes - the almost mythical mid-century playwright - from obscurity. "The gifted film-maker, corduroy activist and amateur dentist Richard Ayoade first chanced upon a copy of The two-hander trilogy by Harauld Hughes in a second-hand bookshop. At first startled by his uncanny resemblance to the writer's photo, he opened the volume and was electrified. Terse, aggressive and ellptical, what was true of Ayoade was also true of Hughes's writing which encompassed stage, screen and come of the shortest poems ever published. Ayoade embarked on a documentary, The unfinished Harauld Hughes, to understand the unfathomable collapse of Hughes's final film, O bedlam! O bedlam!, taking us deep inside the mind of the most furious British writer since the Boer War. This is the story of that quest"--Jacket flap.
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