The Unfinished Harauld Hughes: Richard Ayoade

Richard Ayoade is a BAFTA-winning actor, director and writer. The gifted filmmaker chances upon a copy of The Two-Hander Trilogy by Harauld Hughes in a second-hand bookshop.

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.

In The Unfinished Harauld Hughes, Ayoade chronicles his dogged quest to rescue this great mid-century playwright from obscurity. Join Ayoade for a scintillating evening of conversation about his literary lookalike.

‘Funny and brilliantly rendered – Nabokov meets Spinal Tap’  - Stephen Merchant