Product Description: Joe Gillis is a young, out of work Hollywood screenwriter who becomes fatally enmeshed in the life of Norma Desmond, an aging star of the silent screen. In Andrew Lloyd Webber's acclaimed musical, Christopher Hampton and Don Black have worked together to produce a masterly book and lyrics for this stunning adaptation of Billy Wilder's film classic...read more

An autobiographical play reflects the author's experiences during his youth in Egypt in the period between the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 and the Suez crisis

Product Description: This book is a polemical response to "the mystifying dislocations of theory and practice embodied in the forms of literary discource produced out of the culture of industrial capitalism - from Arnold to Leavis and Eliot, and from the structuralism of Levi-Strauss and Althusser to the proto-idealist theories of the post-structuralists"...read more

The Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont conspire to debauch a young girl, in the decadent world of the nobility of pre-revolutionary France

Product Description: 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 Odon Von Horvath 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...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

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Product Description: Henrik Ibsen Translated by Christopher HamptonFull Length, DramaCharacters: 3 male, 2 femaleInterior Set This riveting family drama is a classic of the modern theatre. Oswald Alving returns for the dedication of the orphanage to his father's memory and has a flirtation with the family maid who, it turns out, is his father's illegitimate daughter...read more