Total Eclipse

Archive Listings for Total Eclipse

T232887979 (KINGSPLAYERS07) Company King's Players.
12 Dec 07 to 14 Dec 07	Greenwood Theatre, Outer London :: V233524968 listing details L1098069394
T2128682518 (MENIER07) 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).
19 Mar 07 to 27 May 07	Menier Theatre, Outer London :: V341546307 listing details L0821031000

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Play :: 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