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Hancock's Last Half-Hour: A Play For One Actor.
Playscript privately printed by Heathcote Williams, including deleted words and annotations in the author’s hand reproduced in the copy. No date (c. 1973). Sm. 4to. White plastic comb binding, with clear plastic covers. 14pp. Photo-reproduced image of Tony Hancock to cover page.
Autograph note SIGNED by Williams loosely inserted (72 words) in which he writes that he wishes “I’d never stolen that goose [a reference to Viennese Aktionist Otto Muehl’s performance at the first Wet Dream Film Festival during which Williams and Anthony Haden-Guest intervened to steal the goose Muehl appeared to be about to kill] - wish many things. Brain dead - blind in one eye - england going bad too. Helping Perry [Benson?] print this any ideas for original material - love Heathcote.”
Age-toning to extremities of pages, o/w Very Good.
Williams’s one-act monologue was subsequently published by Jay Landesman’s Polytantric Press in 1977.
