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Michael Gerald Hastings (2 September 1938 – 19 November 2011) was a British playwright, screenwriter, and occasional novelist and poet. He is best known for his 1984 stage play and 1994 screenplay Tom & Viv, about the poet T.S. Eliot and his wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood.
Nov 29, 2011 · Michael Hastings, a British playwright whose best-known work, “Tom and Viv,” about the first marriage of T. S. Eliot, created a cultural brouhaha over the appropriateness of fictionalizing...
Jan 7, 2024 · Best known for writing Tom and Viv, Hastings made his debut as a teenage dramatist in the 1950s. Now, his vivid ‘young man’s play’ Don’t Destroy Me is back. We watch old movies. We read old novels. So why shouldn’t we occasionally see old plays?
Nov 30, 2011 · Michael Hastings, a British playwright whose best-known work, ''Tom and Viv,'' about the first marriage of T. S. Eliot, created a cultural brouhaha over the appropriateness of fictionalizing...
Nov 29, 2011 · Michael Hastings, a British playwright who was a contemporary of Shelagh Delaney, who died last week, and was—along with her—drafted unwillingly by critics as a member of the "Angry Young...
Overview. Michael Hastings. (b. 1938) Quick Reference. (b. London, 2 Sept. 1938) Playwright. Hastings was a truly young angry young man when his first two plays, Don't Destroy Me (1956) and Yes – And After (1957) had ... From: Hastings, Michael in The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre »
Michael Hastings (1938-2011) was an award-winning playwright and librettist, whose diverse and critically acclaimed work was a main-stay of London theatre for many years. Born and raised in Brixton, he served a three-year tailoring apprenticeship before joining George Devine’s English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre as an actor and ...
