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Conversations After a Burial

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3w, 3m

Christopher Hampton, Yasmina Reza

Conversations After a Burial
by Yasmina Reza
Translated by Christopher Hampton

From the award-winning author of Art, Conversations After a Burial explores that ineffable moment of mourning, when the newly deceased is still almost palpable, the intense pause between absence and the return to everyday existence, between loss and …

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    Cast Size
    3w, 3m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Adaptation (Stage & Screen)

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From the award-winning author of Art, Conversations After a Burial explores that ineffable moment of mourning, when the newly deceased is still almost palpable, the intense pause between absence and the return to everyday existence, between loss and life. Christopher Hampton's superb translation of Yasmina Reza's savage but richly comic play uncovers love and its inevitable betrayals. It premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2000.
M3 (40s, 65)
F3 (35, 45, 64)
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting An open'space

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Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton

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 ...

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Yasmina Reza

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