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Summary
The Prime Minister and his cabinet have been assassinated and England’s most treasured writers are being murdered one by one. Back at the university, a bachelor don anguishes over sex, marriage, anagrams and the meaning of life.
Written as a response to Molière’s The Misanthrope and first performed at the Royal Court in 1970, this biting ‘bourgeois comedy’ examines the empty, insular lives of college intellectuals.
The Philanthropist was revived at the Donmar Warehouse in September 2005.
‘Intellectually stimulating, touchingly sympathetic and gloriously, gloriously funny.’ Sunday Times
ChristopherHampton
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, Appomattox and A German Life. Appomattox was turned into an opera by Philip Glass…
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