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Written Performance Concept
Total Eclipse
Christopher Hampton
Total Eclipse was written in 1967 by Christopher Hampton. The play is about two poets, Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine. I played Rimbaud who was a radical that believed that to be a writer he had to experience as much as possible in mind and body. and I decided that whilst in character I would try and convey the idea that Rimbaud had very strong feelings for Verlaine but I didn’t like showing it to him because as he was married and had another life to fall back on without Rimbaud, whereas Rimbaud had nothing else. This also makes him very dependant on Verlaine especially seeing as without him, Rimbaud would have nowhere to live.