CPR Performance Archive

KEN CAMPBELL's History of Comedy - Part One: Ventriloquism [April 2006]
Performance by Ken Campbell as part of the 2006 Giving Voice festival.

From the Royal National Theatre

KEN CAMPBELL`S
HISTORY OF COMEDY
part one: ventriloquism

Ken Campbell’s one-man shows are hilarious and mind-boggling trips into the bizarre world of a master storyteller. HISTORY OF COMEDY Part One: Ventriloquism takes the audience on a dazzling journey through the art of ventriloquism: from schoolboy experiments in the ancient arts of gastromancy, glossolalia – the gift of tongues – and shamanic Eskimo ventriloquism to encounters with the “grand-daddy” of modern ventriloquism, William Shakespeare Berger, who bequeathed his Kentucky house ‘Vent-haven’ as a final resting place for all “knee pals” everywhere.
Quotes from reviews:

Campbell can create that blissful rising hysteria in which virtually anything can seem side-splittingly funny (Time Out)

Like any true artist his genius is in his ability to latch on to a subject and then make you see it in a completely new light
(What`s On)

If the minstry of silly walks were to publisha white paper on tap dancing it would have rougly the same feel (The Times)

Both describing and demonstrating the transcendental power of comedy. I can`t wait (for part two) (Metro)

The funniest solo act in British theatre (Daily Express)

Performance at 8.30pm, Aberystwyth Arts Centre in the Theatre

More information on KEN CAMPBELL's History of Comedy - Part One: Ventriloquism can be found at:
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www.tentringer.co.uk

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