Performance

VenueMenier Chocolate Factory
Other spaces: The Mixing Room
TownOuter London
CountyGreater London
From19th March 2007
Opened28th March 2007
To27th May 2007
WhenTue-Sat 20:00. Sat, Sun Mats 15:30
PricesFrom £10.00. To £22.50.
What is currently on at Menier Chocolate Factory (V341546307)

Total Eclipse

Total EclipseT2128682518
Total Eclipse is the story of renowned 19th century French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, who endured a passionate and volatile relationship that has inspired generations of artists from Picasso and TS Eliot to Jim Morrison and Bob Dylan. Verlaine is living with his young wife Mathilde in the oppressive atmosphere of her parents home when his life is turned upside down by the arrival of teenage prodigy Rimbaud, brimming with lively rebellion and an insatiable intensity. Seduced by his brilliance and beauty, Verlaine abandons his conventional existence to live an extraordinary life unbound by rules or convention. But the explosive world in which he and Rimbaud exist cannot last forever. Impoverished, transient and trapped in a destructive romantic triangle, something - or someone - has to give...
Author Christopher Hampton


Archive :: production:T2128682518, play:S1977856137, venue:V341546307

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Company

Producer David Babani (for Chocolate Factory Productions)
Director Paul Miller
Design Paul Wills
Lighting Hartley TA Kemp
Music David Shrubsole
Performer Daniel Evans (Paul Verlaine)
Performer Jamie Doyle (Arthur Rimbaud)
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