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Savages (play)
''Savages'' is a play written by British playwright Christopher Hampton. It premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 1973,〔http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/41152827?uid=3738032&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21101535859773〕 and was published the following year by Faber and Faber.
Hampton was inspired to write this play by a newspaper article titled "Genocide" by Norman Lewis in ''the Sunday Times'' Colour Magazine, published on 23 February 1969. This article dealt with the systematic extermination of Brazil's Indians ranging from the 16th century to the present day.
==Background==
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 Lévi-Strauss's ''Le cru et le cuit'' and ''Du Miel aux Cendres''.
The political background of the play is the military dictatorship in Brazil from 1964 to 1985. The regime, backed by the U.S. and particularly the CIA, suppressed all political and civil opposition by widespread use of torture and intense police pressure. Four years after the coup d'état, a guerrilla movement was established under the leadership of Carlos Marighella of the A.L.N (Ação Libertadora Nacional). In 1969 and 1970 various ambassadors and embassy officials from the USA, Japan, West Germany and Switzerland were kidnapped to be exchanged for political prisoners. Marighela was killed by the police in November 1969. By 1972, the guerilla movement was said to be crushed.
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