# The Unfinished Harauld Hughes - Hardcover

by **Richard Ayoade** (Author)

**Richard Ayoade's fictional quest to rescue Harauld  
Hughes - the almost mythical mid-century playwright -  
from obscurity.  
**  
The gifted filmmaker, corduroy activist and amateur dentist, Richard Ayoade, first chanced upon a copy of _The Two-Hander Trilogy_ 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.  

Ayoade embarked on a documentary, _The Unfinished Harauld Hughes_, to understand the unfathomable collapse of Hughes's final film _O Bedlam! O Bedlam!,_ taking us deep inside the most furious British writer since the Boer War.  

This is the story of the story of that quest.

### Author Biography

**Richard Ayoade** 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.

**Number of Pages:** 224

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 8.6 x 5.3 IN

**Publication Date:** November 19, 2024

## Details

- **Price:** 27.95 USD
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