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Daisy Eris Campbell
Daisy Eris Campbell (born 1978), is a British writer, actress and theatre director. Daughter of actor and director Ken Campbell and actress and therapist Prunella Gee. She staged '' The Warp'', a revival of Neil Oram's 24-hour play (which her father had directed many times in the late seventies and early eighties) at The Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. Campbell also adapted Robert Anton Wilson’s cult autobiographical book ''Cosmic Trigger'' for the stage. She played the role of her mother in the play. ''Cosmic Trigger'' is a kind of sequel to her father's adaptation of Robert Anton Wilson's '' Illuminatus!'' Allegedly, Daisy was conceived during the original production of ''Illuminatus!'' In part, the play of ''Cosmic Trigger'' deals with the production of Ken Campbell's adaptation of ''Illuminatus!'' in Liverpool in 1976''.'' In Liverpool, in 2017, she directed the KLF's ''Welcome to the Dark Ages''. In 2018 Campbell was orchestrating and touring a group reading around Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daisy Campbell
Daisy Campbell was a British film actress of the silent era. At the beginning of her career was popular on the London stage. Noted for playing aristocratic white-haired ladies and duchesses. Appeared in more than 20 British silent films. Made her film debut portraying 'Mrs. Waltham' in Denison Clift's "Demos" with Milton Rosmer, 1921. Best remembered as 'Countess of Strangeway s' in Arthur Maude's "Poppies of Flanders," 1927. Her final appear was portraying 'Mrs. McPhillip' in "The Informer," 1929, written by Arthur Robison and starring Lya De Putti and Lars Hanson. Selected filmography * '' Demos'' (1921) * '' The Nonentity'' (1921) * ''A Woman of No Importance'' (1921) * ''Expiation'' (1922) * '' The Indian Love Lyrics'' (1923) * '' The White Shadow'' (1923) * '' Out to Win'' (1923) * '' Hurricane Hutch in Many Adventures'' (1924) * '' The Wonderful Wooing'' (1925) * '' The Woman Who Did'' (1925) * ''Irish Destiny'' (1926) * ''London'' (1926) * '' Poppies of Flanders'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Campbell
Kenneth Victor Campbell (10 December 1941 – 31 August 2008) was an English actor, writer and director known for his work in experimental theatre. He has been called "a one-man dynamo of British theatre". Campbell achieved notoriety in the 1970s for his nine-hour adaptation of the science-fiction trilogy '' Illuminatus!'' and his 22-hour staging of Neil Oram's 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 one-man whirlwind of comic and surreal performance. Michael Coveney, in an obituary in ''The Guardian'', described him as "one of the most original and unclassifiable talents in the Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunella Gee
Prunella Mary Gee (born 17 February 1950) is an English counsellor, therapist and former actress, best known for her work as an actress in the 1970s and 1980s, and for the role of Doreen Heavey in ''Coronation Street'', a part she first played in 1999. Doreen appeared in 17 episodes before returning as a permanent character in 2002 and 2003. She came back the following year for three episodes, proving to be Gee's final television role. Early life and education The daughter of a business man living in Rutland, Gee was privately educated at Benenden School, where she was in the year below Princess Anne.Des Wilson, “Six girls heading for stardom” in The Observer magazine, 1974 volume, p. 524 Wanting to become an actress, she studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where she won the Spotlight Award for Best Actress in 1972; she then spent six months in repertory playing Priestley, Shaw, Shakespeare, Feydeau and Orton. Television and film work Her first televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Warp (play)
Neil R. G. Oram is a British musician, poet, artist and playwright. He is known for his 10-play cycle, ''The Warp'', directed by Ken Campbell. Soho, jazz, art and poetry career In Africa, Oram met musician Mike Gibbs. He played double bass in the ''Mike Gibbs Quintet'' with Gibbs playing piano, vibes and trombone. A post-concert epiphany where a voice repeatedly told him "Je suis un poet!" led him to take up writing. Oram returned to Britain in 1958 where he ran a jazz café called ''The House of Sam Widges'' at 8 D'Arblay Street in Soho, London. The café was known for its jukebox that only had modern jazz records. It attracted many of the top London musicians, such as Ronnie Scott, Tubby Hayes, Graham Bond, Dave Tomlin and Bobby Wellins, who were frequent customers, occasionally enjoying a bowl of spaghetti bolognese prepared by Oram. The café also had a performance stage called 'The Pad'." Oram was now writing poetry, giving readings and painting large, abstract, j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson; January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American author, futurist, psychologist, and self-described agnostic mystic. Recognized within Discordianism as an Episkopos, pope and saint, Wilson helped publicize Discordianism through his writings and interviews. Wilson described his work as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models or maps, and no one model elevated to the truth". His goal was "to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone but agnosticism about everything." In addition to writing several science-fiction novels, Wilson also wrote non-fiction books on extrasensory perception, mental telepathy, metaphysics, paranormal experiences, conspiracy theory, sex, drugs and what Wilson called " quantum psychology". Following a career in journalism and as an editor, notably for ''Playboy'', Wilso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosmic Trigger
''Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of The Illuminati'' is the first book in the ''Cosmic Trigger'' series, first published in 1977 and the first of a three-volume autobiographical and philosophical work by Robert Anton Wilson. It has a foreword by Timothy Leary, which he wrote in the summer of 1977. Leary, Timothy. Foreword to ''Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of The Illuminati'', by Robert Anton Wilson. New York: And/or (1977), pp. ix-xiii. The first volume was published without numbering, as the second volume did not appear for nearly 15 years. Wilson is perhaps best known as the co-author of the award-winning science fiction work ''The Illuminatus! Trilogy''. ''Cosmic Trigger'' revisits many of the themes from that earlier work in a more autobiographical fashion. After publishing the first volume of ''Cosmic Trigger'', Wilson wrote two sequels, '' Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth'' (1991) and '' Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death'' (1995), the title of the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
''The Illuminatus! Trilogy'' is a series of three novels by American writers Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, first published in 1975.''Illuminatus!'' was written between 1969 and 1971, but not published until 1975 according to Robert Anton Wilson, '' Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati'' (1977), p. 145. The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction–influenced adventure story; a drug-, sex-, and magic-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both historical and imaginary, related to the authors' version of the Illuminati. The narrative often switches between third- and first-person perspectives in a nonlinear narrative. It is thematically dense, covering topics like counterculture, numerology, and Discordianism. The trilogy comprises three parts which contain five books and appendices: ''The Eye in the Pyramid'' (first two books), ''The Golden Apple'' (third and part of fourth book), ''Leviathan'' (part of fourth and all of fifth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.24 million. On the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary, Liverpool historically lay within the ancient hundred of West Derby in the county of Lancashire. It became a borough in 1207, a city in 1880, and a county borough independent of the newly-created Lancashire County Council in 1889. Its growth as a major port was paralleled by the expansion of the city throughout the Industrial Revolution. Along with general cargo, freight, and raw materials such as coal and cotton, merchants were involved in the slave trade. In the 19th century, Liverpool was a major port of departure for English and Irish emigrants to North America. It was also home to both the Cunard and White Star Lines, and was the port of registry of the ocean lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The KLF
The KLF (also known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the JAMs, the Timelords and other names) are a British electronic band formed in London in 1987. Bill Drummond (alias King Boy D) and Jimmy Cauty (alias Rockman Rock) began by releasing hip hop-inspired and sample-heavy records as the JAMs. As the Timelords, they recorded the British number-one single " Doctorin' the Tardis", and documented the process of making a hit record in a book '' The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way)''. As the KLF, Drummond and Cauty pioneered stadium house (rave music with a pop-rock production and sampled crowd noise) and, with their 1990 LP ''Chill Out'', the ambient house genre. The KLF released a series of international hits on their own KLF Communications record label and became the biggest selling singles act in the world in 1991. From the outset, the KLF adopted the philosophy espoused by esoteric novels '' The Illuminatus! Trilogy'', making anarchic situationist manifestat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alistair Fruish
Alistair Fruish is an English filmmaker, writer and novelist, born in Northampton. Work Fruish is known for his novel ''Kiss My ASBO''. Along with a number of other short stories by the writer, the initial section of ''Kiss My ASBO'', "Double Bubble", was first published in ''Philosophy Now''. ''Kiss My ASBO'' was one of Russell Brand's recommended reads, given as part of his The Reading Agency lecture in November 2014. On its release the book was highly praised by British working-class writers Alan Moore, Russ Litten and Alex Wheatle, with Courttia Newland describing it as "completely original". Writer and editor Steve Moore called the book "a masterpiece". During a Prison Reading Groups supported visit to maximum-security prison HMP Full Sutton to discuss the book with prisoners, Fruish referred to the book's genre as "grime fiction", with prisoners celebrating the colloquial language and lyrical experience of reading the book. ''Kiss My ASBO'' is one of the books that have bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syllable
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants). Syllables are often considered the phonological "building blocks" of words. They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic metre and its stress patterns. Speech can usually be divided up into a whole number of syllables: for example, the word ''ignite'' is made of two syllables: ''ig'' and ''nite''. Syllabic writing began several hundred years before the first letters. The earliest recorded syllables are on tablets written around 2800 BC in the Sumerian city of Ur. This shift from pictograms to syllables has been called "the most important advance in the history of writing". A word that consists of a single syllable (like English ''dog'') is called a monosyllable (and is said to be ''monosyllabic''). Similar terms include disyllable (and ''disyllabic''; al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 Births
Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government). * January 6 – The Holy Crown of Hungary (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held since World War II. * January 10 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a critic of the Nicaraguan government, is assassinated; riots erupt against Somoza's government. * January 18 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the British government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. * January 22 – Ethiopia declares the ambassador of West Germany ''persona non grata''. * January 24 ** Soviet satellite Kosmos 954 burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. ** Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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