Savages
By: Christopher Hampton
Contributors: Hampton, Christopher, 1946-
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Description: An English diplomat, Alan West, is kidnapped by a political movement in Brazil and kept as a prisoner. Meanwhile, hundreds of Brazilian natives are being slaughtered in countless brutal ways - but the public's focus is on one of these two atrocities only. Hampton's dark examination of human cruelty and willful ignorance was inspired by a Sunday Times article in 1969 recounting the systematic genocide of Brazil's Indians. 'Savages' premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1973.
Notes: Previously issued in print: in Plays one. London: Faber, 1997.