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Full-Length Play, Comedy / 8w, 16m
Christopher Hampton
"Both hilarious and tragic in the notion of the greatest literary brains in mid century Europe having to flee the dictatorship of Hitler only to end up as slaves to the altogether different dictatorship of the Warner Brothers." - Punch
"Th…
"The play is built around a series of interlocking tensions between the tragic innocence of America and the guilty awareness of the Europeans...I felt as if I was seeing a play that took a fascinating slice of cultural history and transmuted it into the complexity of art." - London Guardian
"Enormous fun results from the culture clash." - London Daily Telegraph
Christopher Hampton became involved in theatre while studying French and German at Oxford University, and wrote a play in his first year.
The Royal Court's subsequent production was so successful that it transferred to the Comedy Theatre while he was still a student, making hi ...