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This first collection of Hampton’s work includes The Philanthropist, which premièred 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.
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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