SW/4/BEA - The Beast

SW/4/BEA

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The Beast

The play The Beast was first performed in 1974. It depicts the occultist Aleister Crowley. This file is for the film adaptation. Also referred to as:

• 666 The Number of the Beast, or
• 666 The Beast
There is some overlap between The Beast (SW/4) and Crowley (SW/4).

See also the play The Number of the Beast (series SW/1); and the film Crowley (adapted from the book I, Crowley) (series SW/4).

For SW’s fictional autobiography I, Crowley: Almost the Beast’s Last Will and Testament 666 or I, Crowley: Almost the Last Confession of the Beast 666, see SW/2/2.

The Beast – Expenses, 1985-1990
Invoices, etc. Includes printing of 25 copies of the Beast (1986); travel to Nice (1990).

The Beast, 1986-1991
Film synopsis, schedules and locations; biographical details of Aleister Crowley; correspondence with Hollywood Road Film Productions and Channel Four Television; photographs of Crowley performing yoga positions; CD of ‘Beastly items’, 2004.

McEllen / Beast, 1998
Notes from Parkwood Films on the screenplay draft.

Letter from Aron Paramor of Stratagem Theatre Company to SW. He encloses a rough TS for Scarlet Whispers (an interview between Deidre McEllen and SW). (Two copies, one is annotated by SW).

Note: on the folder label SW has spelt her name McLellan.

666 The Beast. Screen adaptation from [the novel] I, Crowley by SW
Typescript [1999?]

The Beast – Preparation (white ring-binder), 2001
Spreadsheet of costs, notes, photographs, and sketches of shot breakdowns. Also includes a breakdown of each scene into seconds.

Beast ‘07, (red ring-binder), 2007
Three leaves of handwritten notes.

The Beast – Casting, 2008
Cast short list; email correspondence; notes; CV of actress Maike Möller (with a CD).