Daisy_Eris_Campbell

Daisy Eris Campbell

Daisy Eris Campbell

British writer, actress and theatre director

For other people with similar names, see Daisy Campbell (disambiguation).

Daisy Eris Campbell (born 1978),[1] is a British writer, actress and theatre director. Daughter of actor and director Ken Campbell and actress and therapist Prunella Gee.[2] She staged The Warp, a revival of Neil Oram's 24-hour play (which her father had directed many times in the late seventies and early eighties) at The Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.[3] Campbell also adapted Robert Anton Wilson’s cult autobiographical book Cosmic Trigger for the stage.[4] She played the role of her mother in the play.[4] Cosmic Trigger is a kind of sequel to her father's adaptation of Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! Allegedly, Daisy was conceived during the original production of Illuminatus! [4] In part, the play of Cosmic Trigger deals with the production of Ken Campbell's adaptation of Illuminatus! in Liverpool in 1976.[4]

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In Liverpool, in 2017, she directed the KLF's Welcome to the Dark Ages.[5]

In 2018 Campbell was orchestrating and touring a group reading around Britain of the novelist Alistair Fruish's 46,000-word monosyllabic novel "The Sentence".[6]

In 2019 Jason Watkins won the Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism for his review of the Daisy Campbell's one-woman show Pigspurt’s Daughter.[7]

References

  1. [1]
    Mosley, Charles, ed. (2006). Debrett's People of Today Two Thousand and Six. London: Debrett's Peerage. p. 261. ISBN 9781870520324. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  2. [2]
    Nick, Clarke (14 November 2014). "'Illuminatus!' director's daughter returns to play that gave her life".
  3. [3]
    The House, Via (21 November 2014). "Playing the Cosmic Trigger: An Interview with Daisy Eris Campbell". The Psychedelic Press.
  4. [4]
    Coveney, Michael (10 May 2017). "Cosmic Trigger: Ken Campbell's daughter captures Illuminatus! spirit in trippy epic". The Guardian.
  5. [5]
    Ellen, Barbara (26 August 2017). "KLF Welcome to the Dark Ages". The Guardian.
  6. [6]
    Cooper, Neil. "Epic four-hour reading of Alistair Fruish's novel is a return to arts as resistance". The Herald Scotland.
  7. [7]
    Watkins, Jason (10 March 2019). "Burgess Prize winner 2019: Jason Watkins on Daisy Campbell's Pigspurt's Daughter". The Guardian.
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