Savages

'...a play that delicately, and with cumulative power, transcribes Mr Hampton's sorrow and indignation at the gradual extinction of the Brazilian Indians, and his reluctant but inexorable disillusionment with freedom fighters and liberal champions of good causes. For what the diplomat discovers in his prison cell with his eloquent captor (all these scenes tingle with life and thought) and in flashbacks at home with his wife, his friends and his colleagues, is that people care passionately...only for those good causes they can espouse without loss to themselves...This is the best kind of political play. It hits the audience rather than at some hypothetical third person villain.' - Harold Hobson in the Sunday Times