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Despite Patrick’s intellectual gifts, even his native scepticism gets worked loose under the glare of Bastard Theory and the mind-warping rigours of the training. His class at the Institute presents an eclectic mix of men’s issues and neuroses, as they battle through strategies, complex and subtle systems of manipulation, Zen arts of chatting up and reporting in.
The American, the ‘Boss’, has the mission and the method. Except Patrick has met and is in pursuit of Lillian, a bright and utterly desirable broadsheet journalist, on whom he must practise and develop his Bastard skills. As his interest in her becomes more compelling, straying even into the ‘heresy’ of love, it becomes increasingly unlikely that this affair, and all that’s riding on it, can work out well...
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About the author
An award-winning actor with many years of experience in the theatre, film, and TV, Andrew Hawkins has a keen eye for character and people’s performative capabilities. As a teacher of actors at institutions like RADA, Drama Centre and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Andrew has learned a huge amount about the ways and means of self-presentation, of confidence and dissimulation. He lives in North London.
