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Beyond our Ken
A brilliant tribute to a comic genius goes way beyond mere biography, says LYNNE WALSH
Channelling comic genius: Jeremy Stockwell (left)
[Robert Day]
RON JACOBS recommends a book that charts the disparate circumstances that defined the lives of two prominent black Afro-Americans — one a communist, the other an anti-communist
CHRIS MOSS joins the hunt in Argentina for the works of Poland’s most enigmatic exile
SYLVIA HIKINS welcomes a survey of successful contemporary worker co-operatives and economy-based co-operative systems
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends the staging of this Wagnerian classic minus one or two insignificant quibbles
JOHN GREEN relishes the record of a life well lived in the service of the fight for justice and socialism
Ken
The Bunker, London
“IF THERE’S a goat, order pudding,” was the advice of the adorably anarchic Ken Campbell on one occasion.
Baffling? Not at all. In the context of an anecdote about the late comic genius’s life, it makes perfect sense.
This two-hander, written by and featuring Terry Johnson as himself, sees Jeremy Stockwell channelling Campbell rather than playing him.
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