Bruce Lacey and Ken Campbell - 2 movies by Ian Johnson

A large audience gathered in London's east end Toynbee Hall theatre space, Whitechapel, to see two films by "director extraordinaire" Ian Johnson. The first film to be shown was "Bruce Lacey: The Original Performance Artist" (56mins) a film documenting the work of 60's robotics and performance artist Bruce Lacey. Ian's second film "No Problem..." (33mins), was a tense documentary film about actor, writer and man of notorious and experimental theatre, Ken Campbell. Campbell, who died suddenly last year at the relatively young age of 66, was prolific in his creative output achieving notoriety in the '70's for some marathon stage productions - 'Illuminatus!" (9 hours) and Neil Oram's play 'The Warp' (22 hours)- listed by the Guiness Book of Records as the longest play in the world. Ian's "No Problem..." features the latter. Amidst the audience were some of the cast of this marathon - so a rare chance to hear some interesting comment about the life and work of Campbell.