Christopher Hampton is a distinguished British playwright, screenwriter, and film director celebrated for his masterful adaptations of literary works. His work on the stage adaptation of Les Liaisons dangereuses and its subsequent film version garnered significant acclaim, as did his screenplay for Atonement. Hampton's writing often delves into themes of adolescence and identity, drawing from personal experience to explore complex human relationships and psychological nuances with a distinctive voice.
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This brilliantly constructed, witty and sophisticated comedy of manners, first seen at the Royal Court with Alec McCowen and Jane Asher in 1970, has been revised for this edition by the author. The play revolves around a couple of days in the life of a bachelor don who is on the point of getting married, and the consequences of a dinner party he gives which cause turmoil and recriminations in the lives of his guests. Reviewing the original production in the Sunday Times, Harold Hobson described it as '...a wonderful evening, intellectually stimulating, touvhingly sympathetic and gloriously, gloriously funny.'
There's this monstrous idiot - this monstrous elected idiot - who keeps telling his fellow-idiots to throw my books on a bonfire and beat me up in the street. Stefan is a successful author - widely read, universally admired, and translated into every language.
Les liaisons dangereuses