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The Forest (Paperback, Main)
Florian Zeller; Translated by Christopher Hampton
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He can't help himself and he plunges into the forest. until the
moment it dawns on him: night has fallen and he is completely lost.
Pierre finds himself at a turning point, tormented by the
conflicting demands of family, career and sexual desire. His
struggle to resolve this crisis, without fracturing his marriage or
compromising his comfortable way of life, is explored in original
and unsettling ways. Florian Zeller's raw and mysterious play,
translated by Christopher Hampton, premieres at Hampstead Theatre,
London, in February 2022. I'm telling you a story, if that's all
right by you. Apparently you've no objection to telling stories
yourself. Am I right?
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The Son (Paperback, Main)
Florian Zeller; Translated by Christopher Hampton
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Nicolas is going through a difficult phase after his parents'
divorce. He's listless, skipping classes, lying. He believes moving
in with his father and his new family may help. A different school,
a fresh start. When he senses he isn't wanted there, he decides to
go back to his mother's. But what happens when the options dry up?
I'm telling you. I don't understand what's happening to me. Florian
Zeller's The Son completes a trilogy with The Mother and The
Father, all of which are translated by Christopher Hampton. The Son
premiered at the Kiln Theatre, London, in February 2019, and
transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre in August.
Stephen Ward charts the rise and fall from grace of the man at the
centre of the Profumo Scandal. Friend to film stars, spies, models,
government ministers and aristocrats, his rise and ultimate
disgrace coincided with the increasingly permissive lifestyle of
London's elite in the early 1960s. Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical,
with book and lyrics by Christopher Hampton and Don Black, centres
on Ward's involvement with the young and beautiful Christine
Keeler, which led to one of the biggest political scandals and most
famous trials of the twentieth century. Stephen Ward premiered at
the Aldwych Theatre, London, in December 2013.
4th March, 1865: On the night of his second inauguration, a few
weeks before his assassination, Abraham Lincoln meets the veteran
black abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the White House to discuss
the prospect of extending the vote to black men who have served in
the soon to be victorious Union armies. 4th March, 1965: In the
White House, Lyndon Johnson, anxious to introduce a new Voting
Rights Act, is briefed by his sinister and "unfirable" FBI
director, J. Edgar Hoover, on the imminent Selma to Montgomery
march, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. It is a demonstration
prompted by a state trooper's murder of the young activist Jimmie
Lee Jackson, in Marion, Alabama, following a rally in support of
voter registration in Perry County. In his ambitious new play,
commissioned by the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis as the centrepiece
of a retrospective of his plays and films, Christopher Hampton
traces a line which runs from the last days of a brutal Civil War
to the high-water mark of the Civil Rights movement and on, all the
way to the present day; and considers the agonisingly slow healing
of a wound, universal, but especially deep and painful in America:
racism. Appomattox premiered at the McGuire Proscenium Stage in the
Guthrie Theater on 5 October, 2012.
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Uncle Vanya (Paperback, Main)
Anton Chekhov; Translated by Christopher Hampton
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Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya in a new version by Christopher
Hampton. This version will be first staged at the Vaudeville
Theatre, London, on 25 October 2012 and run until 16 February 2013.
'It's often said that the best of the Chekhov plays is the one
you've seen most recently. Uncle Vanya doesn't have a suicide, like
The Seagull, or an adulterous couple and a duel more or less
indistinguishable from murder, like Three Sisters; nor does it seem
to announce the end of an era, like The Cherry Orchard: all it has
is a series of ludicrously bungled attempts at murder and suicide
and adultery. Perhaps these failures are what makes it feel the
saddest and most truthful of these great tragi-comedies, in which,
possibly unique to all drama, not a single word seems redundant or
out of place.' - From the author's introduction.
Set in the socially and economically oppressed Vienna of the early
thirties, this play is the story of a young girl's struggle to
survive in the city, a victim of forces she does not comprehend. As
the play opens, she is trying to sell her body to an anatomical
institute.
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The Seagull (Paperback, Main)
Anton Chekhov; Translated by Christopher Hampton
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I know now, Kostya, I understand that in our work - doesn't matter
whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or
glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability
to endure. The Seagull is one of the great plays about writing. It
superbly captures the struggle for new forms, the frustrations and
fulfilments of putting words on a page. Chekhov, in his first major
play, staged a vital argument about the theatre which still
resonates today. Christopher Hampton's new version of this classic,
directed by Ian Rickson in his last production as Artistic Director
of the Royal Court Theatre, London, premiered in January 2007.
The Mother Anne loved the time in her life when she prepared
breakfast each morning for her two young children. Years later,
spending hours alone, Anne convinces herself that her husband is
having an affair. If only her son were to break-up with his
girlfriend. He would return home and come down for breakfast. She
would put on her new red dress and they would go out. The Mother,
in this English translation by Christopher Hampton, was
commissioned by the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal, Bath, and
premiered in May 2015. Florian Zeller's The Mother was awarded the
Moliere Award for Best Play 2011. The Father 'A wonderfully
peculiar, quietly stunning depiction of dementia... A controlled,
unforgettable portrait of losing your memory.' Times 'A vivid,
lucent translation by Christopher Hampton.' Observer 'One of the
most acute, absorbing and distressing portraits of dementia I've
ever seen.' Daily Telegraph 'A play that constantly confounds
expectations and works almost like a thriller, with a sinister
Pinteresque edge.' Guardian The Father, in this English translation
by Christopher Hampton, was commissioned by the Ustinov Studio,
Theatre Royal, Bath and premiered in October 2014. The production
transferred to the Tricycle Theatre, London, in May 2015. Florian
Zeller's The Father was awarded the Moliere Award for Best Play
2014.
What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the
unruly behaviour of their children? A calm and rational debate
between grown-ups about the need to teach ids how to behave
properly? Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums and tears
before bedtime? Boys will be boys, but the adults are usually worse
- much worse. Christopher Hampton's translation of Yasmina Reza's
sharp-edged new play The God of Carnage premiered at the Gielgud
Theatre, London, in March 2008. Christopher Hampton has translated
five plays by Yasmina Reza: 'Art', The Unexpected Man,
Conversations after a Burial, Life x 3 and The God of Carnage.
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Life X 3 (Paperback, First)
Yasmina Reza; Translated by Christopher Hampton
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Life X 3 presents three versions of two couples (and an offstage six-year-old) trying to make a success of one evening despite the fact that they neither like nor respect one another. When Hubert and Inès arrive a day early to dinner at the home of Henri and Sophie, Sophie barely has time to change out of her robe and Inès is in a foul mood about a run in her stocking—from there, the evening can only go downhill. Over an improvised meal of chocolate fingers, potato chips, and wine, the couples trade insults on every social and professional level and loyalties are changed with the same rapidity that glasses of Sancerre are drained. However, as she has so astutely done in the past, Yasmina Reza uses these acidic exchanges to illuminate the innate desire for love and acceptance in us all.
'A lot of my plays begin as comedies and mutate in the course of
the evening, because my instinct is that you have to welcome the
audience in and make sure they're sitting comfortably before you
can give them an adequate punch on the jaw.' Since the acclaimed
London premiere of his first play in 1966, Christopher Hampton has
established himself as one of Britain's most prominent, and least
predictable, dramatists. From his best-known play, Les Liaisons
Dangereuses, and its Oscar-winning film version, Dangerous
Liaisons, to personal and critical favourites like Total Eclipse
and Tales from Hollywood; from his films as writer-director
(Carrington, Imagining Argentina) to his work as
screenwriter-for-hire (Mary Reilly, The Quiet American); from
translations (Art) to musicals (Sunset Boulevard), Hampton
eloquently - and entertainingly - explores his varied career with
interviewer Alistair Owen, and discusses its recurring theme: the
clash of liberal and radical thought, exemplified by his most
recent play, The Talking Cure, about the fathers of psychoanalysis,
Jung and Freud.
Christopher Hampton's new play The Talking Cure deals with the early years of C. G. Jung and his decision to experiment, using Freud's controversial new method of psychoanalysis, with a young Russian patient, Sabina Spielrein. The success of the experiment and the blossoming of his relationship with Sabina inaugurates, haunts and ultimately poisons Jung's friendship with Freud; and the ideas and conflicts which engulf the three of them embody, as Jung comes to realize, the destructive forces which are to overwhelm the disastrous century ahead.
The Talking Cure premièred at the Royal National Theatre in December 2002.
Winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy
Christopher Hampton's wry, poignant drama depicts the consequences of old literary Europe's attempt to integrate into fast-paced commercial Hollywood in the early years of World War II. With Austro-Hungarian playwright Ödön Von Horváth resurrected as our guide, Tales from Hollywood leads us through a bizarre landscape where Schoenberg and the Marx Brothers play tennis, Brecht tries to write film treatments the studios will clamor over, and Heinrich Mann endeavors to maintain a dignified despair, overshadowed by his younger brother Thomas, who thrives on his celebrity status. As the war ends and McCarthyism sets in, the younger èmigrès assimilate but the older ones, unable to bear what they term the "tragic innocence" and relentless "cuteness" of America, go into a slow decline. Meanwhile, Horváth's conversations and observations raise questions of personal accountability for the unchecked rise of Nazism in Europe in the thirties and the futility of being homesick for countries that have forced one into exile.
In its contrast of the two continents, Tales from Hollywood paints a wistful, humorous portrait of a time when Europe and North America were in the throes of artistic, ideological, and political changes that would forever alter their own identities as well as their relations to each other.
This major anthology spans 500 years of radical protest from the
Peasants' Revolt to the First World War. This book provides an
alternative political and social history of England. This is
history as creative defiance, as communal action, involving the
intellectual and imaginative witnesses of those among the
privileged - poets, writers, and thinkers - who have had the
strength and courage to make themselves passionate spokesmen for
the dispossessed. Here are passages from More's "Utopia", Hobbes'
"Leviathan", Bunyans' "Pilgrim's Progress", Mary Wolstonecraft's
"Vindication of the Rights of Women". Here, too, are extracts from
Wyclif, Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, Winstanley, Marvell, Swift,
Blake, Wordsworth, Cobbett, Byron, Shelley, Dickens and Marx - plus
a wealth of hitherto inaccessible documents. 'There is something
for everybody in Mr Hampton's 600 pages ...A most useful,
thought-provoking collection.' - Christopher Hill, "The Guardian".
The scandalous reputation of Laclos's novel, first published in
1782, is based on its chilling portrayal of the mannered decadence
and sexual cynicism of the French aristocracy in the last years of
the ancien regime. Christopher Hampton has made a masterful
adaptation for the stage of the conspiracy to corrupt a young girl
barely out of her convent. Les liaisons dangereuses was premiered
by Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place,
Stratford-upon-Avon, on 24 September 1985, and won Christopher
Hampton the Evening Standard Award for Best Play and the Laurence
Olivier Award for Best New Play in 1986.
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The Truth (Paperback, Main)
Florian Zeller; Translated by Christopher Hampton
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Two couples. Friendship, suspicion, deceit. And the truth. Florian
Zeller's The Truth, in the English translation by Christopher
Hampton, premiered at The Chocolate Factory, London, in association
with Theatre Royal Bath. It follows the phenomenal success of The
Father (Theatre Royal Bath, Tricycle, London and West End) and The
Mother (Theatre Royal Bath, Tricycle, London), both by Florian
Zeller and translated by Christopher Hampton.
I had no idea what was going on. Or very little. No more than most
people. So you can't make me feel guilty. Brunhilde Pomsel's life
spanned the twentieth century. She struggled to make ends meet as a
secretary in Berlin during the 1930s, her many employers including
a Jewish insurance broker, the German Broadcasting Corporation and,
eventually, Joseph Goebbels. Christopher Hampton's play is based on
the testimony she gave when she finally broke her silence to a
group of Austrian filmmakers, shortly before she died in 2016.
Maggie Smith, alone on stage, plays Brunhilde Pomsel. Christopher
Hampton's play is drawn from the testimony Pomsel gave when she
finally broke her silence shortly before she died to a group of
Austrian filmmakers, and from their documentary A German Life
(Christian Kroenes, Olaf Muller, Roland Schrotthofer and Florian
Weigensamer, produced by Blackbox Film & Media Productions).
What happens when two sets of parent's meet up to deal with the
unruly behaviour of their children? A calm and rational debate
between grown-ups about the need to teach kids how to behave
properly? Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums and tears
before bedtime? Boys will be boys, but the adults are usually worse
- much worse. God of Carnage won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy
and the Tony award for Best Play.
With an introduction by the author, this first collection of Christopher 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.
Total Eclipse is a dramatization of the destructive relationship between the French poets Rimbaud and Verlaine. It was made into a film with Leonardo Di Caprio and David Thewlis. Also included in this edition are the incisive dramas Savages and Treats.
An Enemy of the People concerns the actions of Doctor Thomas Stockmann, a medical officer charged with inspecting the public baths on which the prosperity of his native town depends. He finds the water to be contaminated. When he refuses to be silenced, he is declared an enemy of the people. Stockmann served as a spokesman for Ibsen, who felt that his plays gave a true, if not always palatable, picture of life and that truth was more important than critical approbation.
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The Mother (Paperback)
Christopher Hampton; Florian Zeller
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Anne loved the time in her life when she prepared breakfast each
morning for her two young children. Years later, spending hours
alone, Anne convinces herself that her husband is having an affair.
If only her son were to break-up with his girlfriend. He would
return home and come down for breakfast. She would put on her new
red dress and they would go out. The Mother premiered at the
Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal, Bath and transferred to the Tricycle
Theatre, London. It was awarded the Moliere Award 2011 for Best
Play and Best Actress.
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The Father (Paperback)
Christopher Hampton; Florian Zeller
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The Father, in this English translation by Christopher Hampton, was
commissioned by the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal, Bath and
premiered in October 2014. The production transferred to the
Tricycle Theatre, London and subsequently to Wyndham's Theatre in
the West End. Florian Zeller's The Father was awarded the Moliere
Award for Best Play and the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Actor.
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Judgment Day (Paperback, Main)
Odon Von Horvath; Translated by Christopher Hampton
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It's another normal day at a small-town station, where a handful of
passengers are waiting for the stopping train. Thomas Hudetz, the
well-liked station master, is momentarily distracted by a young
woman. Seconds later eighteen people are dead. Standing in the
wreckage of the 405 Express, can Thomas accept the truth that is
hurtling towards him? If not, how long can he postpone the day of
judgment? Christopher Hampton's translation of OEdoen von Horvath's
Judgment Day premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in September
2009
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