Savages

Christopher Hampton was inspired to write this play by a newspaper article titled "Genocide" by Norman Lewis in the Sunday Times Colour Magazine, published on 23rd February 1969. This article dealt with the systematic extermination of Brazil's Indians ranging from the 16th century to the present day.

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The play is based on an incident in the early 1960s which involved the slaughter of the Cintas Tribe on one of their traditional feast days, the Quarup. In one single attack, virtually all members of the tribe were killed by sticks of dynamite dropped from a plane. Hampton based his research about the Quarup and the legends he used in the play on "Mythology of all Ages" and on Claude L?vi-Strauss's "Le Cru et le Cuit" and "Du Miel aux Cendres".

Christopher Hampton: Christopher Hampton (born January 26, 1946 to British parents in Fayal, Azores) is a British playwright, screen writer and film director. He is best known for his play based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and the movie Dangerous Liaisons....

Norman Lewis: Norman Lewis (28 June, 1908–22 July, 2003) was a prolific British writer best known for his travel writing. Though he is not very widely known, he is considered by some to be one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. Grahame Greene wrote:...

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