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The performance text, more or less, with a few footnotes and entertaining illustrations of Ken Campbell's award winning comic monologue Pigspurt or Six Pigs from Happiness. A wealth of inventive storytelling most of which is autobiographical at root if not in full flower. A complexly structured but deceptively accessible associative rap encompassing Gnostic thought, theatrical anecdote, sexual role playing, an exploration of anima and animus and shadow, Philip K Dick's later work, conspiracy theory, the customs of Vanuatu, the comedy of Ken Dodd and much else besides. A funny, funny book with a few pointers to further thought. The illustrations also mean its quite fun to flick through.

There aren't really any other books much like this I can think of but works in peripherally similar veins include;

The BFI casebook on the Exorcist by Mark Kermode

VALIS, The Divine Invasion, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K Dick,

In search of VALIS by Laurence Sutin,

An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley,

Why is John Lennon wearing a skirt? by Claire Dowie

Swimming to Cambodia by Spalding Gray

Laughter in the Air by Barry Took

I saw this play at the theatre twice before I read the book. The book loses a bit because to a certain extent it is the author's face and voice that made me laugh so much, and the delivery. And the wearing of a tea-cosy on his head and David Mellor's teeth!

Violin Time was not really a play, more a collection of anecdotes (some of which I suspect were untrue), mixed with esoterics quantum physics, an infinite improbability drive [we know he's familiar with Douglas Adams] and an old Stephen Fry joke. I'm sure you get the idea that this very mixed bag proved very interesting and amusing from start to finish. Because there's such a lot in the play, this makes having a written record of the play even more important. I doubt whether Ken will perform Violin Time again, so pop out and buy the book.

Dave Farmbrough 1/12/'98