The Emerging Genius of Rowan Atkinson

COLLECTORS LIMITED EDITION BOOK

Photographs by PAUL YULE

Before the success of Mr. Bean or Blackadder, ROWAN ATKINSON starred in several Revues – first at Oxford, then on The Edinburgh Fringe and beyond – collaborating with the likes of Richard Curtis, Howard Goodall, Angus Deayton, Tim McInnerny, Helen Fielding and others.

PAUL YULE‘s photographs of these rising stars in the late 1970s and early ’80s – as they rehearsed, performed and went on tour – are accompanied by the hilarious, original scripts by Atkinson and Curtis, as well as by posters and programme notes.

This is a unique, intimate portrait of a generation of Oxford talent that would soon take the world by storm.

270 pages; Book dimensions: 25 x 20 cms (10″ x 8″)

Hardback £95 + p&p