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Rediscovered screenplays of Hughes: Witches, feminists, winds, and glowing wrongs.

Four Films

presented by Richard Ayoade

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    1 April 2025

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Summary

Richard Ayoade edits and introduces this defining work of the great midcentury visionary of stage and screen.

This volume of Harold Hughes’s last four screenplays includes a preface and afterword by the author.

THE TERRIBLE WITCH A feisty undergraduate uncovers fresh witchy business in Ipswich.

THE AWFUL WOMAN FROM SPACE Two top feminist scientists find their sense of sisterhood challenged by the arrival of an intergal…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780571393060
ISBN-10:0571393063
Author:Harauld Hughes
Publisher:Faber & Faber
Imprint:Faber & Faber
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:1 April 2025
Weight:284g
About The Author

Harauld Hughes

Harauld Hughes was born in Cardiff in 1931. In 1932, his mother sent him to London to fend for himself. He remained there until the outbreak of the Second World War, when he was evacuated to Suffolk, despite his offers to enlist. Hughes returned to London in 1945 and lived in the Elephant and Castle. His experiences as a teenage landlord informed much of his later work. He wrote his first play, Platform, in 1960, but it was his fourth play, Roost, written, unusually, before his third play, Roast, which made his reputation. He remains one of the UK’s most garlanded playwrights. He was awarded the Euripides Prize for short-form drama and the Goethe Garter, and was one of the first writers-in-residence at Costa Coffee, albeit in an unofficial capacity.

He was married to the theologian and chef Lady Virginia Lovilocke.

He died in 2006.

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