Tales from Hollywood - Softcover

Hampton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571118836 ISBN 13: 9780571118830

Publisher: Faber, 2001

Synopsis

With the Austro-Hungarian dramatist Ödön von Horváth as our guide, Christopher Hampton's witty and erudite play takes us on a tour of the sun-soaked boulevards of 1940s Los Angeles. Taking in such improbable residents as Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Bertolt Brecht and the Marx Brothers amongst others, it brilliantly serves to open up a neglected chapter of American cultural history, as the wry and embittered European émigrés find themselves amidst the materialistic razzle-dazzle of Hollywood.

Tales from Hollywood premiered at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre, Los Angeles, 1982 and at the National Theatre, London, in 1983.

About this title

Review:

"Hampton's finest play" ("The Times, London") -- a portrait of Europe's literary emigres stranded in 1940s Hollywood.

From the Publisher:

Praise for 'Tales from Hollywood'
'A vivid picture of wartime Hollywood where literary legends became studio hacks...Hampton writes with real compassion.' The Guardian

'Terrific fun.' Daily Telegraph

'Hampton's finest play...deserves the spare, sharp revival John Crowley is offering at the Donmar Warehouse.' The Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0571118836
• ISBN 13: 9780571118830
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96