COSMIC TRIGGER, THE PLAY to Return to London This Spring

By: Feb. 20, 2017
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Tickets for Robert Anton Wilson's Cosmic Trigger, the play by Daisy Eris Campell, presented by Love & Will Productions and The Cockpit, are on sale now, including a limited number of early bird tickets from just £15. Tickets for some nights have already sold out.

The production will run 4th - 27th May 2017, with Press Night set for Friday 5th May 2017. Tickets: £22 , £32 (Sunday Salons) Plus limited Earlybird discounts.

Back by popular demand after their 2014 Liverpool and London shows, Cosmic Trigger is the story behind the notorious conspiracy satire, 'Illuminatus', the extraordinary life and times of the novel's co-author, Robert Anton Wilson, and the unstoppable force that was theatre legend, Ken Campbell.

The script by Daisy Eris Campbell (Ken's daughter) is based on Wilson's autobiography, a tale that inspired a generation and kick-started the counterculture - Cosmic Trigger.

Phantasmagorical music, 3D projections and a recorded guest performance from Alan Moore evoke the real-life hallucinogenic trip through conspiracy, paranoia and enlightenment that transformed Robert Anton Wilson from Playboy editor to much-loved counter-cultural icon.

Set in the late sixties and early seventies, the play recounts the period of Wilson's life around the conception and writing of Illuminatus. During this time, he befriended Timothy Leary, Alan Watts and William Burroughs, took LSD and experimented with the magickal rituals of Aleister Crowley with predictably - and unpredictably - mind-blowing results...

For more information, visit thecockpit.org.uk/cosmictrigger.



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