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Neil Oram (Neil R. G. Oram) was born on 2 January, 1938 in Torquay, Devon, England, is a British musician and poet. Discover Neil Oram's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

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Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 2 January 1938
Birthday 2 January
Birthplace Torquay, Devon, England
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1850

The Warp's hero is called Phil Masters, named after the blind poet Philip Bourke Marston, who lived from 1850 to 1887.

The play traces the hero’s many previous lives over a period of thousands of years.

The Warp appears in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest play ever performed.

Lasting upwards of 22 hours when performed fully, the Phil Masters character is on stage for all but five minutes, making it one of the most demanding acting roles ever created.

1938

Neil Oram (born 2 January 1938) is a British musician, poet, artist, and playwright.

He is best known for his 10-play cycle, The Warp, directed by Ken Campbell.

While in Africa, Oram met musician Mike Gibbs, and played double bass in the Mike Gibbs Quintet with Gibbs playing piano, vibes and trombone.

A post-concert epiphany when a voice repeatedly told him, "Je suis un poet!"

led Oram to take up writing.

1950

Oram's poems and other writings can be found in underground magazines from the late 1950s onwards, like Night Scene published by Lee Harwood, and International Times (IT) Oram also contributed to the Poetry Review, edited by Eric Mottram, a mainstay of the modernist-inspired British Poetry Revival of the 1960s and 1970s.

1958

Oram returned to Britain in 1958 where he ran a jazz café called The House of Sam Widges on 8 D'Arblay Street in Soho, London.

The café was known for its jukebox that only had modern jazz records.

It attracted many highly regarded musicians in London, such as Ronnie Scott, Tubby Hayes, Graham Bond, Dave Tomlin and Bobby Wellins, all of whom were frequent customers.

The café also had a performance stage called 'The Pad'.

Oram was now writing poetry, giving readings and painting large, abstract, jazz inspired paintings.

1960

In 1960, he opened "The Mingus" art gallery in Marshall Street, Soho, where abstract paintings by O. G. Bradbury, George Popperwell, Jaime Manzano, Tony Shiels and William Morris, the American poet and action painter, were exhibited.

Morris's jazz paintings were executed in The Pad to the vibrant sounds of the Graham Bond Quartet, then carried and hung up in The Mingus.

1968

Oram’s published poems were collected in ‘Children of Albion’ (Penguin 1968), ‘Words-re-arranged’ (Privately printed, 1970), ‘Past The Antique Pain’ (Zum Zum 1974), ‘Beauty’s Shit’ (Zum Zum 1976), ‘The Golden Forgotten’ (Great Works 1977), ‘Yes To The Fresh’ (Zum Zum 1995).

1979

The first performance of The Warp (Warp 1, The Storm's Howling through Tiflis) opened at London's ICA on 2 January 1979, the author's birthday.

For the first two weeks the performances were of one play per night.

Then, due to the popularity of the play, there were three full, non-stop, 'marathon' performances of all 10 plays, which were also filmed.

Performers included Russell Denton (in the lead), Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, Maria Moustaka, Stephen Lorne-Williams, Neil Cunningham, Richard Hope and Pat Donovan.

In order for Denton to be sufficiently rested to do the marathons, where he would be on stage for 22 hours, Oram himself was called upon to step up and perform the lead in a number of the plays.

The ICA performance was documented by the BBC in their Arena arts TV series.

At the 1979 Edinburgh Festival, the abandoned Regent Cinema, on Abby Mount at the A1, was taken over by The Warp troupe who put on five 24-hour marathon performances or “cycles”.

This was followed with one performance at Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire.

Five further marathon performances followed at the Roundhouse in London in November 1979, also directed by Campbell.

The Warp DVD, a video of the full 18-hour 1979 ICA production is available directly from Oram.

1980

In 1980 Oram was 'resident playwright' at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, where The Warp ran for ten weeks.

In 1980-82, The Warp was adapted by director Werner Nekes for a film called Uliisses, shot in Germany with The Warp cast.

1982

It was screened at the 1982 London Film Festival.

1984

In 1984, the film was awarded Best Film at the German Film Critics Association Awards.

The Warp was subsequently turned into a three-volume novel by Oram, published by Sphere Books.

1990

In the 1990s, there were a number of productions of The Warp directed by Ken Campbell's daughter Daisy Eris Campbell.

In the late 1990s, the play was staged at "The Drome" nightclub under the arches of the London Bridge as part of a rave called The Warp Experience that ran for 9 events.

Obituaries on Ken Campbell in The Telegraph and The Guardian say that Ken "wrote" The Warp or "co-wrote" The Warp with Neil Oram.

2011

While there, Oram wrote an 11th Warp play entitled Chameleon Blue.

2015

A select collection of poems drawn from 56 years of poetry, The Rain Stands Tall, was published in 2015 by Barncott Press.

Oram has painted abstract pieces of art over a long period of time out of which mostly have not been shown in public.

The paintings include a series of twenty geometric images, the Diamond Series, painted over two decades.