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Michael Hastings is the award-winning playwright and librettist, whose diverse and critically acclaimed work has been a main-stay of London theatre for many years. Born and raised in Brixton, he served a three-year tailoring apprenticeship before joining George Devine’s English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre as an actor and writer.
By twenty, Michael had had three plays performed in London and New York, and since then he has written seventeen plays in total. These include Don’t Destroy Me (1956), Lee Harvey Oswald (1966), For the West (Uganda) (1975), Full Frontal (1979), Tom and Viv (1984), The Emperor (1987), A Dream of People (1990) and most recently, Calico (2004). He has also translated Molière’s The Miser (1982), Roberto Cossa’s La Nona (1986) and Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden (1991). A number of his works have been adapted for cinema, most notably The Nightcomers (1972) with Marlon Brando, and the Oscar-nominated Tom and Viv (1994), with Willem Dafoe and Miranda Richardson. He has written two internationally praised librettos for Michael Nyman – Man and Boy: Dada (2004), and Love Counts (2006).
Michael is based in London, but has lived abroad and taken inspiration from extensive stays in Brazil, Africa and Spain, and a number of trips to Columbia, Bolivia and the Caribbean. He is married to the playwright and librettist Victoria Hardie. Tom and Viv enjoyed a successful revival at the Almeida in the Autumn of 2006. He has recently completed a radio-adaptation of Lampedusa’s The Leopard, to be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 later in the 2008.
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