New season of NEW prestigious studio dramas starts with Christopher Hampton 's evocation of 1940s Hollywood, featuring a distinguished cast and starring Jeremy Irons. Among the residents of Los Angeles during the 40s were Thomas and Heinrich Mann , Bertolt Brecht and, according to this play, the Austro- Hungarian dramatist Odon Von Horvath, our guide to the sun-soaked boulevards and the bizarre cultural collisions of wartime Hollywood.