Thursday, 24. April 2008
Topic: DRUGS - on April 24, 2008 at 1:15:00 PM CEST
The Six Wives of Timothy Leary
Here is an interesting take on Timothy Leary's life. The Six Wives of Timothy Leary is a play which examines his life from the perspective of the six women he married during his adventure-filled life.
Both review links are from the play's debut in a one month run in London which ended December 9th. I also included a MySpace profile for the play which has a lot of images and bits of blogged information about the play:
Timandrosemary John Higgs, author of the Leary biography I Have America Surrounded says this about the play:
As any Learyphile will tell you, you get the Timothy Leary you deserve. Such is the ever-shifting nature of his character that he is almost impossible for a writer to depict without revealing far more about themselves than about him. Over the last couple of decades he has defeated many a Hollywood screenwriter who has tried but failed to crack the illusive ‘Leary script.’ All of which makes the achievement of first-time dramatist Philip de Gouveia all the more impressive, for his approach to the story is the simplest, smartest and most original that I have ever come across. Simply put, he ignores Tim and tells his story through his wives.
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