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Fresh, stylistically inventive take on contemporary British life by the writer/director behind the popular theatre group Forced Entertainment. This series of cautionary tales for the digital age confirms Etchells' standing as one of Britain's most original writers. Endland Stories is a must read for anyone with a sense of unease about the impact of technology on our sense of identity. Probably the most inventive book you will read this year.
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Tim Etchells is a writer and artist based in Sheffield, Endland ©. He is best known for his work with Forced Entertainment, who have been called "Britain's most brilliant experimental theatre company" (The Guardian). In 1997 he co-directed "DIY", a film for Channel Four which won the Best Short Documentary prize in the San Francisco Film Festival. "Certain Fragments", a collection of Etchells' theoretical and critical writing on performance, is being published by Routledge in 1999.
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"The best yet from the pulpsters!"
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Jeff Noon
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"Surreal, compulsive."
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Tina Jackson, The Big Issue
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"Though his theme is the state of the nation, Etchells has little time for the new realism of the last few years, placing himself instead in the tradition of Ballard and Moorcock. Hacking up our comforters—TV cartoons, mythologies, children's toys and board games—he deftly strips away the sentimental wadding we use as insulation from reality. A dance through the ruins of modern Britain."
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Rhidian Davis, Attitude
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1 901072 126 / JAN 99 / £8.99
