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Ridiculous!Kaufman, David

Ridiculous!

Kaufman, David
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From his first unscripted appearance on an Off-Broadway stage in the revolutionary 1960s to the frontpage news of his death from AIDS in 1987 at age 44, Charles Ludlam embodied – and helped to engender – the upheavals of his time. The astonishing life and legacy of this force to be reckoned with are at last revealed in RIDICULOUS!, a literary biography of an American comic genius. After founding the Ridiculous Theatrical Company in 1967, Ludlam sustained an ever-shifting troupe of bohemian players through two decades of perennially daunting circumstances by writing 29 plays – plays that he…

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5 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2005
    Applause Books · 500 pages · 9781557836373
  • Other · English · 2005
    Leonard Corporation, Hal · 9781557838964
  • Other · English · 2005
    Leonard Corporation, Hal · 9781476849065
  • Other · English · 2005
    Leonard Corporation, Hal · 9781476849072
  • Other · English · 2002
    Applause Theatre & Cinema Books · 496 pages · 9781557835888
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