{"product_id":"the-unfinished-harauld-hughes-9780571377893","title":"The Unfinished Harauld Hughes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Ayoade's fictional quest to rescue Harauld\u003cbr\u003eHughes - the almost mythical mid-century playwright -\u003cbr\u003efrom obscurity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe gifted filmmaker, corduroy activist and amateur dentist, Richard Ayoade, first chanced upon a copy of \u003ci\u003eThe Two-Hander Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e by Harauld Hughes in a second-hand bookshop. At first startled by his uncanny resemblance to the author's photo, he opened the volume and was electrified. Terse, aggressive, and elliptical, what was true of Ayoade was also true of Hughes's writing, which encompassed stage, screen, and some of the shortest poems ever published.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ayoade embarked on a documentary, \u003ci\u003eThe Unfinished Harauld Hughes\u003c\/i\u003e, to understand the unfathomable collapse of Hughes's final film \u003ci\u003eO Bedlam! O Bedlam!, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003etaking us deep inside the most furious British writer since the Boer War.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This is the story of the story of that quest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Ayoade\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and director. In addition to directing and co-writing Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, he has adapted and directed Joe Dunthorne's novel Submarine for the screen and is the co-writer (with Avi Korine) and director of the film The Double. As an actor he is best known for his roles as Dean Learner in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and Maurice Moss in the Emmy Award-winning The IT Crowd, for which he was awarded a BAFTA for Best Performance in a Comedy.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50889298673938,"sku":"9780571377893","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3ff3fab9-53b6-4ad4-8ae0-94828b1323bc.jpg?v=1738161548","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-unfinished-harauld-hughes-9780571377893","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}