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Tales from Hollywood

With the Austro-Hungarian dramatist �d�n von Horv�th 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 �migr�s 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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 96
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780571118830
  • Genres
  • plays
  • Release date
  • 2001