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Tales From Hollywood
by Christopher Hampton
Awards & Recognition
Olivier Award
Synopsis
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 Weissmuller?8 women, 16 men
Press Reviews
"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
"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
Publication
Publisher Samuel French
Year 1985
Binding Paperback
Pages 88
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573114335
ISBN-10 0573114331
Tales From Hollywood is a British comedy play written by Christopher Hampton and published by Samuel French (1985).
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Fee: Minimum Fee: $110 per performance
Restrictions: Major Markets Only (US) / Standard Restriction (UK)
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