TOTAL ECLIPSE by Christopher Hampton
In this drama passion is bondage, genius nestles in madness and two men become each other's heaven and hell.
Destiny left simple happiness out of the script in fashioning the relationship between the French poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud. One might say that Rimbaud wrote the major part of the script. Claiming that the poet's task is to be a seer, Rimbaud while still in his teens demanded "a long, immense and deliberate derangement of all the senses, the poet seeking every possible experience of love, pain and madness . . ."
Absinthe is the catalyst....
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