THE UNFINISHED HARAULD HUGHES

So funny Nabokov meets Spinal Tap Stephen Merchant Brilliant brilliant brilliant Tim Key Absolutely miraculous Jesse Eisenberg A brain swirlingly funny quest Robert Popper 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 mind of the most furious British writer since the Boer War This is the story of the story of that quest