Maurice/ un film deJames Ivory ; d'après le roman d' E.M. Forster ; scénario Kit Hesketh-Harvey
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Information trouvée : Christopher John "Kit" Hesketh-Harvey (30 April 1957 – c. 1 February 2023) was a British
musical performer, translator, composer, and screenwriter. Born in Nyasaland (now
Malawi), Rhodesia and Nyasaland, into a Foreign Office family, he was educated as
senior chorister at Canterbury Cathedral and then at Tonbridge School in Kent. He
gained an Exhibition in English Literature as well as a choral scholarship to Clare
College, Cambridge, where he studied under John Rutter and joined the Footlights.
Hesketh-Harvey worked for six years as a staff producer for the BBC-TV Music and Arts
Department, leaving to write the script for Merchant Ivory's Maurice (1987). He won
the 1988 Vivian Ellis Award for musical theatre writers and subsequently studied with
Stephen Sondheim, who had been appointed to the Cameron Mackintosh visiting professorship
in Contemporary Theatre at St Catherine's College, Oxford.