Plays by Author - Christopher Hampton

Total Eclipse

Christopher Hampton

Faber & Faber

A screenplay set in Paris in the late 1800s and featuring two celebrated poets. Paul Verlaine is a volatile alcoholic torn between his lovely yet conventional wife and the seductive and brilliant Arthur Rimb...

$12.99

White Chameleon

Christopher Hampton

Faber & Faber

In the years between the Egyptian revolution in 1952 and the Suez crisis, the author grew up in Alexandria. This semi-fictional autobiographical play deals with such matters as his pet chameleon, his artisti...

$14.99

Total Eclipse

Christopher Hampton

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 4 Female

A fascinating insight into the friendship between the poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud which takes a look at the bourgeois and artistic societies of the nineteenth century With a moving understanding ...

$10.99

The Philanthropist

Christopher Hampton

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 3 Female

A singular play that begins with a resounding shock in the parlor of a professor of philology where two men are watching are listening to a dramatic reading of a third man's play. One is kind in his remarks:...

$12.99

When Did You Last See My Mother?

Christopher Hampton

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

Jimmy and Ian share a flat. Jimmy is "straight"; and Ian is "not". Neither are very "gay". One night Jimmy brings a girl home He tries to get Ian and his friend to go out so he can have some privacy but Ian...

$10.99

Tales From Hollywood

Christopher Hampton

Samuel French Ltd

6 Female

What if Odon von Horvath, the Austrian playwright who died before he got to Hollywood, actually made it to Tinseltown to meet up with the likes of Thomas Mann, Brecht, Garbo, the Marx Bros. and Jonny Weissmu...

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Christopher Hampton - Plays 1 - Total Eclipse & The Philanthropist & Savages & Treats

Christopher Hampton

Faber & Faber

Four Christopher Hampton plays from the late-1960s and early-1970s - a comedy about the repercussions of a dinner party, an account of the relationship between Rimbaud and Verlaine, a variant on the eternal ...

$24.99

Savages

Christopher Hampton

Used Copy

$19.99

The Philanthropist

Christopher Hampton

Used Copy

$19.99

Collected Screenplays - Carrington & Dangerous Liaisons & The Custom of the Country & A Bright Shining & Mary Reilly

Christopher Hampton

Faber & Faber

The Secret Agent: It is 1886, and Verloc, an agent provocateur who is secretly working for the police and the Russian Embassy while ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho, is required by his maste...

$29.99

When Did You Last See My Mother?

Christopher Hampton

Used Copy

Jimmy and Ian share a flat. Jimmy is "straight"; and Ian is "not". Neither are very "gay". One night Jimmy brings a girl home He tries to get Ian and his friend to go out so he can have some privacy but Ian...

$19.99

Appomattox

Christopher Hampton

Faber & Faber

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 prosp...

$12.99

Christopher Hampton - Plays 2 - CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT

Christopher Hampton

Faber & Faber

Featuring Tales from Hollywood (Winner of the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best New Comedy, 1983), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (the hugely influential adaptation which led to the worldwide cinema smash hi...

$29.99