Christopher Hampton es un distinguido dramaturgo, guionista y director de cine británico, célebre por sus magistrales adaptaciones de obras literarias. Su trabajo en la adaptación teatral de Les Liaisons dangereuses y su posterior versión cinematográfica obtuvieron un gran reconocimiento, al igual que su guion para Atonement. La escritura de Hampton a menudo profundiza en temas de adolescencia e identidad, basándose en experiencias personales para explorar relaciones humanas complejas y matices psicológicos con una voz distintiva.
Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums and tears before bedtime?Boys will be boys, but the adults are usually worse - much worse. Christopher Hampton's translation of Yasmina Reza's sharp-edged new play The God of Carnage premiered at the Gielgud Theatre, London, in March 2008.
Les liaisons dangereuses
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.'