A genuinely unique poet and visual artist, Christopher Knowles is best known as the autistic teenager who, throughout the 1970s and beyond, unexpectedly found himself collaborating with theatre auteur Robert Wilson on the libretti for major avant garde works such as A Letter for Queen Victoria and Einstein on the Beach. Knowles’s extraordinary texts, meticulously created on a manual typewriter, are abstract and dizzyingly repetitious in some places, but vivid and deeply personal in others; 70s pop culture is refracted through them in surprising and unpredictable ways — imagine Gertrude Stein in a head-on collision with David Cassidy.
Wednesday 4th November, 7.30pm £10 (£8 concs.)
Camden People's Theatre
or save money and support the artists by buying a season ticket on this site -- see sidebar for details
YEAH BOOM!: A Christopher Knowles Reader at the CPT web site
plus:
The Network of Howard Betel
As a late-show companion piece to YEAH BOOM!, Chris Goode presents a world premiere reading of Knowles’s most extended and perhaps most accomplished text piece: an unremittingly intense, deliriously sustained retelling of the plot of Sidney Lumet’s legendary 1974 film Network.
Please note: The Network of Howard Betel contains strong language throughout.
Wednesday 4th November, 9pm £5 (or free with ticket to YEAH BOOM!)
Camden People's Theatre
or save money and support the artists by buying a season ticket on this site -- see sidebar for details
The Network of Howard Betel at the CPT web site
Read Harry Gilonis on Christopher Knowles and YEAH BOOM! here
Listen to Christopher Knowles as performed by Knowles and Robert Wilson here
Watch a key scene from Network here
