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Michael Gerald Hastings (2 September 1938 – 19 November 2011) was a British playwright, screen-writer, and occasional novelist and poet. He is best known for his 1984 play about the poet T.S. Eliot and his wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood, ''Tom & Viv'', which was adapted into a motion picture released in 1994. Hastings was born in London. His early plays (''Don't Destroy Me'' (1956), ''Yes And After'' (1957)) reflected the influence of the Angry Young Men movement and his brief involvement with the circle surrounding Colin Wilson.〔Kenneth Allsop, ''The Angry Decade'', P. Owen (1964), p132〕〔Sidney Campion, ''The World of Colin Wilson'', F. Muller (1962), p147〕 He later enjoyed mainstream West End success with ''Gloo Joo'' (1978), a farce about a West Indian threatened with deportation from the United Kingdom, which won the ''Evening Standard'' Comedy of the Year Award in 1979. He wrote numerous stage plays, television screen plays, and in addition to the ''Tom & Viv'' film, scripts for two motion pictures, ''The American'' and ''The Nightcomers'' (based on Henry James' short story "The Turn of the Screw" and starring Marlon Brando). He also wrote two libretti for Michael Nyman, ''Man and Boy: Dada'' (2003, assisted by Victoria Hardie) and ''Love Counts'' (2005). Hastings' 1950's play The Cutting of the Cloth saw its world premiere at the Southwark Playhouse in London from 11 March through 4 April 2015. The cast were Alexis Caley, Andy de la Tour, James El-Sharawy, Paul Rider, and Abigail Thaw, directed by Tricia Thorns.〔Southwark Playhouse playbill 2015〕 He published his first novel, ''The Game'' in 1957, followed by ''The Frauds''. His 1970 novel ''Tussy Is Me'' – about Eleanor Marx – won him the "Somerset Maugham Award". A poetry collection, ''Love Me, Lambeth, and Other Poems'' appeared in 1961. Hastings died aged 73 on 19 November 2011.〔 ==Selected works== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Hastings (playwright)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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