Theater

June, 1977

We're not quite sure what's going to happen," said the press officer of Britain's National Theatre nervously. The National, an enormous cultural bazaar on the south bank of the River Thames, was about to open its third, most experimental, theater with a production of Illuminatus!, an adaptation of the cult sci-fi trilogy by Playboy Senior Editor Robert Shea and former Associate Editor Robert Anton Wilson.Rave reviews had already come to London from Liverpool, where Illuminatus! was first pr...