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Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 2m
Florian Zeller, Christopher Hampton
André and Madeleine have been in love for over fifty years. This weekend, as their daughters visit, something feels unusual...
Image: 2019 Manhattan Theatre Club Production (Joan Marcus)
André and Madeleine have been in love for over fifty years. This weekend, as their daughters visit, something feels unusual. A bunch of flowers arrive, but who sent them? A woman from the past turns up, but who is she? And why does André feel like he isn’t there at all?
Christopher Hampton’s translation of Florian Zeller’s The Height of the Storm was first performed at Richmond Theatre, London, and opened in the West End at Wyndham’s Theatre in October 2018.
Avant de s’envoler in its original French production opened at the Théâtre de l’Oeuvre, Paris on 5 October 2016.
THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM in this translation by Christopher Hampton was first presented by Simon Friend, Mark Goucher and Howard Panter at the Richmond Theatre on 1 September 2018, and in the West End.
ANNE – daughter
ANDRÉ – father
MADELEINE – mother
ÉLISE – second daughter
A WOMAN
A MAN
André and Madeleine’s country house, not far from Paris.
“A deeply moving study of love, loss and the unbearable pain of absence...” – The Guardian
“Zeller silkily interweaves layers of time and memory in this elegiac meditation on ageing, frailty and loneliness, fluidly rendered in Christopher Hampton's translation.” – Evening Standard
“Deeply moving. A play that takes us to the edge of what it is to love.” – The Times
Christopher Hampton became involved in theatre while studying French and German at Oxford University, and wrote a play in his first year.
The Royal Court's subsequent production was so successful that it transferred to the Comedy Theatre while he was still a student, making hi ...
by Christopher Hampton, F...
Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller