Christopher Hampton DramaCharacters: 10 male, 5 female, plus extras Various Sets Revised version. Total Eclipse is an intelligent look at the relationship between Rimbaud and Verlaine and shows considerable insight into the bourgeois and artistic societies of the period as well as a moving understanding of homosexuality. The first six scenes develop the contrast between the two men...and their mutual need for each other as they move th | Total Eclipse by Christopher Hampton, Paperback | Indigo Chapters