Hampton on Hampton: Conversations with Christopher Hampton - Softcover

Hampton, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571214185 ISBN 13: 9780571214181

Verlag: Christopher Hampton, 2005

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Hampton on Hampton: Conversations with Christopher Hampton offers a unique portrait of the playwright, writer and director famous for Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Total Eclipse, The Quiet American, and many others.

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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 in 2014. He has translated plays by Ibsen, Molière, von Horváth, Chekhov and Yasmina Reza (including Art and Life x 3). He has translated seven plays by Florian Zeller, including The Father and The Son, both of which he subsequently co-wrote for the screen with Florian Zeller, winning an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Father in 2021. Musicals include Rebecca, Stephen Ward, Sunset Boulevard and The Third Man. His television work includes adaptations of The History Man, Hôtel du Lac and The Singapore Grip. His screenplays include The Honorary Consul, The Good Father, Dangerous Liaisons, Mary Reilly, Total Eclipse, The Quiet American, Atonement, Cheri, A Dangerous Method, Ali & Nino, Carrington, The Secret Agent and Imagining Argentina, the last three of which he also directed.

Alistair Owen is the author of Smoking in Bed: Conversations with Bruce Robinson (one of David
Hare's Books of the Year in the Guardian), Story and Character: Interviews with British Screenwriters,
Hampton on Hampton (one of Craig Raine's Books of the Year in the Observer), The Art of Screen
Adaptation: Top Writers Reveal Their Craft and The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William
Boyd.

He has written original and adapted screenplays and stage plays; contributed interviews and reviews
to Creative Screenwriting and the Independent on Sunday; and his first novel, The Vetting Officer, is
available on Kindle. He has also chaired Q&A events at venues and festivals across the UK, and his
platform with Christopher Hampton in the Lyttelton Theatre to celebrate Faber's 75th anniversary
was published in the anthology Faber Playwrights at the National Theatre.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Christopher Hampton
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0571214185
• ISBN 13: 9780571214181
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
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