Tom and Viv

Tom and Viv, by Michael Hastings tells of the relationship between poet TS Eliot and his first wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood.

Michael Hastings’s brilliantly researched controversial fictional account Tom and Viv was first performed at the Royal Court in 1984 and 10 years later was made into a film starring Willem Dafoe and Miranda Richardson.

Performance history in South Africa

In South Africa a Baxter Theatre production was directed by Ken Leach in 1986, starring Neil McCarthy, Dorothy-Ann Gould, Neville Thomas, Kate Edwards, Margaret Inglis, Michael Drin.

Sources

Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987.

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