Drummond and Cauty 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. I've come to the conclusion that this isn't literature. Wilson was delighted with the adaptation, saying: 'I was thunderstruck at what a magnificent job they did in capturing the exact tone and mixture of fantasy and reality in the book. 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. The adaptation became the very first production at the National's Cottesloe Theatre space, running from 4 March to 27 March 1977. He more or less said it was a crime to be serious.' Sir Peter Hall, director of the National at the time, wrote of Campbell in his Diaries, 'He is a total anarchist and impossible to pin down. 🧐Īn audacious proposal by the English experimental theater director Ken Campbell to stage Illuminatus! in its entirety at The National Theatre in London was met with surprisingly open arms, particularly given its inordinate length: a cycle of five plays- The Eye of the Pyramid, Swift Kick Inc., The Man Who Murdered God, Walpurgisnacht Rock and Leviathan-each consisting of five 23-minute-long acts. Many unique 'facts' from Wikipedia are fabrications.

They tackle all the important cover-ups of our time - from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on the one-dollar bill - and suggest a truly mind-blowing reality.That means it cannot be entirely trusted! 😬 Brimming with sex and violence - in and out of time and space - the three books of The Illuminatus! Trilogy are only partly works of the imagination. Saul Goodman knows he's stumbled onto something big - but even he can't guess how far into the pinnacles of power this conspiracy of evil has penetrated.

Now his offices have been bombed, he's gone missing, and the case has landed in the lap of a tough, cynical, streetwise New York detective. Joseph Malik, editor of a radical magazine, has snooped into rumours about an ancient secret society that turned out to be still alive and kicking.

They tackle the cover-ups of our time - from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill - and suggest a mind-blowing truth.

Filled with sex and violence - in and out of time and space - the three books in this trilogy are only partly works of the imagination.

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