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Tales from Hollywood

Tales from Hollywood

by Christopher Hampton (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

    $7.98
Synopsis

With the Austro-Hungarian dramatist OEdoen von Horvath as our guide, Christopher Hampton's witty and erudite play takes us on a tour of the sun-soaked boulevards of 1940s Los Angeles. Taking in such improbable residents as Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Bertolt Brecht and the Marx Brothers amongst others, it brilliantly serves to open up a neglected chapter of American cultural history, as the wry and embittered European emigres find themselves amidst the materialistic razzle-dazzle of Hollywood. Tales from Hollywood premiered at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre, Los Angeles, 1982 and at the National Theatre, London, in 1983.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 96
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber
Published: 09 Apr 2001
ISBN 10: 0571118836
ISBN 13: 9780571118830
Book Overview: Tales from Hollywood is Christopher Hampton's witty and erudite play, in which OEdoen von Horvath guides us around the Hollywood residencies of the likes of Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Bertolt Brecht and the Marx Brothers.

Media Reviews
Hampton's finest play ( The Times, London ) -- a portrait of Europe's literary emigres stranded in 1940s Hollywood.
Author Bio
Christopher Hampton was born in the Azores in 1946. He wrote his first play, When Did You Last See My Mother? at the age of eighteen. Since then, his plays have included The Philanthropist, Savages, Tales from Hollywood, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, White Chameleon and The Talking Cure. He has translated plays by Ibsen, Moliere, von Horvath, Chekhov and Yasmina Reza (including Art and Life x 3). His television work includes adaptations of The History Man and Hotel du Lac. His screenplays include The Honorary Consul, The Good Father, Dangerous Liaisons, Mary Reilly, Total Eclipse, The Quiet American, Carrington, The Secret Agent and Imagining Argentina, the last three of which he also directed, and A Dangerous Method, based on his play The Talking Cure. Appomattox was first presented on the McGuire Proscenium Stage of the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, USA, in September 2012 as the centrepiece of a major retrospective of his plays and films.