The People Show (1967)

Deeply weird avant garde happenings in London in 1967. 'Confrontational anti-theatre' by The People Show in its first manifestation.

Audience participation is very much part of the show. Whether the audience likes it or not!

At the very end you can hear a few bars of the Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd playing a live version of Interstellar Overdrive. I'll post the rest of this on You Tube when I get the time.

Those lines in full...

"This is the stringy wish that none of you bastards ever let fly with.

This is the nightmare crotch that only opens to your hands when night comes down on your head like a warm void.

This is the child your tongues won't buy, and your aborted bodies go sour for!

This is the story of your lives!

These are the trophies, the shed skins, the old dreams, the left placenta of the little birds of vanity, that young men think they can race across the roofs of the city like pigeons.

These are the silly-brained banners of all your lost causes, the republican host of sexual wishes!"

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Weird
• theater
• People
• Show
• London
• 1966
• confrontational
• avant
• garde
• Syd
• Barrett
• Pink
• Floyd

[RalphMarx]

its groove and surreal

i find it dark and realistic

[dsduchin]

Ah Mark Long, the working man's Liberace.

[dsduchin]

@wailin1967 Yup, and the other fellow is Mark Long. The two of them founded People Show in 1966, and the book shop they performed this under was Better Books on Charing Cross. People Show is still alive and kicking, and Mark Long is still in nearly every production.

[californiagrant]

thanks for this. please do post the rest if you get a chance. what film is it from?

[wailin1967]

Is the guy in the dark clothes Jeff Nuttall ?

[DickStainy]

Monty Python?

[AlbertMondback]

Bahahahaha!

[ridskog]

That was funny.

[mehaffey95]

Ah, what a humorless time. Thank Ga for The Pythons--or at least for Garden and Cleese and and their contemporaries . . . How these cats ended a program with all of their teeth remains a mystery.

[venusflytrap64]

oh god!

"I haven't laughed so hard since Pompey"

(that's a blue meanie quote)

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