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Christopher Hampton Plays 1: Total Eclipse; The Philanthropist; Savages; Treats (Faber Contemporary Classics)

Christopher Hampton Plays 1: Total Eclipse; The Philanthropist; Savages; Treats (Faber Contemporary Classics)

by Christopher Hampton (Author), Christopher Hampton (Author), Christopher Hampton (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

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Synopsis

This first collection of Hampton's work includes The Philanthropist, which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 1970 and went on to become one of the Court's longest-running West End transfers. The volume also contains Treats, Savages and Hampton's deeply affecting drama about the relationship of the French poets Rimbaud and Verlaine, Total Eclipse.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 352
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 17 Feb 1997
ISBN 10: 0571178340
ISBN 13: 9780571178346
Book Overview: Christopher Hamilton Plays 1 contains the plays Total Eclipse; The Philanthropist; Savages; and Treats.

Media Reviews
The Philanthropist A wonderful evening, intellectually stimulating, touchingly sympathetic and gloriously, gloriously funny. -- Sunday Times Total Eclipse A fine play...A deeply affecting work, simply and directly expressed in a language which does not need to strive to achieve its poetic effects. -- Sunday Times Savages A play that delicately, and with cumulative power, transcribes Mr Hampton's sorrow and indignation at the gradual extinction of the Brazilian Indians, and his reluctant but inexorable disillusionment with freedom fighters and liberal champions of good causes. -- Sunday Times Treats Mr Hampton writes with wit, elegance and a strong sense of character...Thoughtful, thought-provoking and funny. -- Times Educational Supplement
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, The Talking Cure and Appomattox. He has translated plays by Ibsen, Moliere, von Horvath, Chekhov, Florian Zeller (including The Father), Daniel Kehlman and Yasmina Reza (including Art and Life x 3). Musicals include Sunset Boulevard and Stephen Ward, both with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black. 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. It was subsequently turned into an opera by Philip Glass and premiered at the Kennedy Center, Washington in November 2014., Christopher Hampton wrote his first play When Did You Last See My Mother? at the age of eighteen. Later plays include The Philanthropist, Savages, Tales from Hollywood, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, White Chameleon, The Talking Cure and Appomattox; and numerous translations. Musicals include Sunset Boulevard and Stephen Ward. TV and film: The History Man, Hotel du Lac, The Honorary Consul, The Good Father, Dangerous Liaisons, Mary Reilly, Total Eclipse, The Quiet American, A Dangerous Method, Carrington, The Secret Agent and Imagining Argentina, the last three of which he also directed.