Hampton / Holding

“She called me in and said, ‘You’ve got a choice, dear, now,’ ” Mr. Hampton recalled. “ ‘You can write this play over and over again for the next 40 years, and it’ll probably get a little better. Or you can do something completely different.’ And I said, ‘Well, I’m thinking of writing a play about the extermination of the Brazilian Indians.’ And that set my course, really — which was to start again, every time.”

Heh.