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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...

Creatives/Company

Author: Christopher Hampton
Company: King's Players