Les Imbeciles
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| Title: | Les Imbeciles |
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| Author(s): | Carrie I. Hagen |
| Cover Artist(s): | Lynne Leeper |
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| Date(s): | 1986 |
| Medium: | print zine, fanfic |
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| Fandom: | Blake’s 7 |
| Language: | English |
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Les Imbeciles is a gen Blake's 7 42-page (single-sided) novel, a script with filks, by Carrie I. Hagen. It has the subtitle: "A Serio-comic Filksong Opera Never Performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company" and is a parody of "Les Miserables."
It is dated 1986, but the cover art by Lynne Leeper is dated 1987.
From the zine:
The following is a filksong opera based on Les Miserables, a musical which is being performed in London and on Broadway in New York. When I wrote this, it had not moved to Broadway yet, but it has now just recently cleaned up at the Tony awards, winning, among other things, best musical. It deserved it!
The ideal way to absorb this work is to read it along with the play's soundtrack. I based it on the London recording, so that would be the best to follow with, but I don't think the Broadway version is too different. If you don't have the soundtrack, read it anyway. I hope you'll still get a few laughs out of it. But remember, the rhyme scheme and meter is not my own (just the perverse lyrics).
This work is dedicated to Victor Hugo, who is no doubt turning in his grave right now.
If you enjoy this work, and want to share it, please dan't go down to your local copy shop. Write to me and I'll send as many copies as you desire—for a price, of course. My address is: [redacted].
No obscenities on the envelopes, please, my parents live here too.