Performance

Venue	Menier Chocolate Factory
	Also: The Mixing Room
Town	Outer London
County	Greater London
From	19th March 2007
Opened	28th March 2007
To	27th May 2007
When	Tue-Sat 20:00. Sat, Sun Mats 15:30
Prices	From £10.00. To £22.50.
Menier Chocolate Factory (V341546307)
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Total Eclipse

Work:: Total Eclipse (S1977856137)

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

Production:: (T2128682518)

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)

Listing:: L0821031000

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