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    Prunella Gee. . . (m. 1978; div. 1983) . Children. Daisy. Kenneth Victor Campbell (10 December 1941 – 31 August 2008) was an English actor, writer and director known for his work in experimental theatre. [1] He has been called "a one-man dynamo of British theatre". [2]

  2. Aug 31, 2008 · In 2006 Campbell worked with Adam Meggido's theatre company the Sticking Place (now Extempore Theatre) and staged a run of In Pursuit of Cardenio at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, during which the cast were supposed to re-create a lost Shakespeare play through improvisational techniques. In practice it turned into a nightly-changing series of ...

  3. Ken Campbell who has died suddenly aged 66, was one of the most original and unclassifiable talents in the British theatre of the past half-century. He was a writer, director and monologist, a genius at producing shows on a shoestring and honing the improvisational capabilities of the actors who were...

  4. Sep 1, 2008 · Obituary: Experimental writer, theatre director and improviser, he was one of the strangest people in Britain

  5. Sep 11, 2008 · Improvisation, the least predictable form of theatrical game-playing, is also one of the most imaginative. Ken Campbell’s best work was almost manically joyous and optimistic.

  6. Aug 31, 2008 · 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.

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  8. How did the late British maverick theatremaker Ken Campbell, leading Canadian improv teacher Alan Marriott and the four Elizabethan humours contribute to the birth of SHOWSTOPPER! The Improvised Musical? In the first of a three-part series, founder Dylan Emery recalls the rollercoaster ride.