Richard Ayoade: The Unfinished Harauld Hughes

Lookalikes and literary excavations: join Richard Ayoade for an evening of live readings and conversation around his story of uncovering his doppelgänger.

In The Unfinished Harauld Hughes, Ayoade chronicles his dogged quest to rescue Harauld Hughes – the great mid-century playwright – from obscurity.

He first chanced upon a copy of The Two-Hander Trilogy by Harauld Hughes in a second-hand bookshop. At first 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 this event, Richard Ayoade returns to the Royal Festival Hall to accomplish the quest, diving deep into the world of Harauld Hughes.