
What if Odon von Horvath, the Austrian playwright who died before he got to Hollywood, actually made it to Tinseltown to meet up with the likes of Thomas Mann, Brecht, Garbo, the Marx Bros. and Jonny Weissmuller?8 women, 16 men

The Austro-Hungarian dramatist Odon Von Horvath takes us on a tour of the sun-soaked boulevards of 1940s Los Angeles. Hampton's play opens up a neglected chapter of American cultural history as wry and embittered European emigres find themselves amid the materialistic razzle-dazzle...