The Plays of David Hare

The Plays of David Hare PDF Author: Carol Homden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521427180
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Book Description
This 1995 book examines the work of David Hare including screenplays and the plays he has written for the Royal National Theatre.

The Plays of David Hare

The Plays of David Hare PDF Author: Carol Homden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521427180
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Book Description
This 1995 book examines the work of David Hare including screenplays and the plays he has written for the Royal National Theatre.

Plenty

Plenty PDF Author: David Hare
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573619182
Category : Conformity
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Book Description
Susan Traherne returns to her home in post-war Britain haunted by her experiences as a resistance fighter in occupied France.

Stuff Happens

Stuff Happens PDF Author: Jack Tep
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1796086932
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 61

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This book is about coincidents that have happened in my life that affected the American public, from cities being changed forever once we left to important buildings being raised. These are just a few incidents that can be remembered. Sayings such as “rip off” or “under the bus” are identified and repeated often publicly. Somehow, songs of the fifties could be traced to my experiences.

Amy's View

Amy's View PDF Author: David Hare
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573627002
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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After sold-out performances at the National Theatre prompted a transfer to the West End, Judi Dench came to Broadway to star in this heady and original drama of love and death. In 1979 Esme Allen is a well-known British actress caught in a changing West End climate that is trying for performers. A visit from her young daughter with a new boyfriend sets in motion a series of events which only find their shape sixteen years later. -- Publisher's website.

Racing Demon

Racing Demon PDF Author: David Hare
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 057130107X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 121

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How do you fight without hate?Racing Demon reveals the struggle of four clergymen to make sense of their mission. David Hare's play opened at the National Theatre, London, in 1990 to universal acclaim, and won four awards as Play of the Year. Racing Demon was the first part of David Hare's trilogy of plays about British institutions; Murmuring Judges and The Absence of War completed the trilogy.

Beat the Devil

Beat the Devil PDF Author: David Hare
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571366090
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 39

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Book Description
Covid-19 seems to be a sort of dirty bomb, thrown into the body to cause havoc. On the same day that the UK government finally made the first of two decisive interventions that led to a conspicuously late lockdown, David Hare contracted Covid-19. Nobody seemed to know much about it then, and many doctors are not altogether sure they know much more today. Suffering a pageant of apparently random symptoms, Hare recalls the delirium of his illness, which mixed with fear, dream, honest medicine and dishonest politics to create a monologue of furious urgency and power.

Skylight

Skylight PDF Author: David Hare
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571301126
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 109

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Book Description
Skylight premiered at the National Theatre in 1995 and then went on to become one of the most internationally successful plays of recent years. This is the definitive edition of Skylight.

Obedience, Struggle and Revolt

Obedience, Struggle and Revolt PDF Author: David Hare
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0571228720
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Book Description
What is a political playwright? Does theatre have any direct effect on society? Why choose to work in a medium which speaks to so few? Is theatre itself facing oblivion? All frequent questions addressed to David Hare over the last thirty-five years, as his work has taken him from the travelling fringe to the National Theatre, from seasons on Broadway to performances in prisons, church halls and on bare floors. Since 1978, Hare has sought uniquely to address these and other questions in occasional lectures given both in Britain and abroad. Now, for the first time, these lectures are collected together with some of his more recent prose pieces about God, Iraq, Israel/Palestine and the privatisation of the railways. Bringing to the lectern the same wit, insight and gift for the essential for which his plays are known, Hare presents the distilled result of a lifetime's sustained thinking about art and politics. 'The foremost theatrical chronicler of contemporary British life.' New York Times 'Our best writer of contemporary drama.' Sunday Times

The Vertical Hour

The Vertical Hour PDF Author: David Hare
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573651304
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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"David Hare's new play The Vertical Hour is a thought-provoking exploration of how the political can sometimes intersect, collide with and ultimately dismantle the personal. While the play is positively brimming with cogent and fascinating arguments involving the current political situation, the production only fitfully succeeds in bringing this story to life. Hare fills The Vertical Hour with several of these ethical and philosophical quandaries that serve not only as dramatic interplay between the three main characters, but, also metaphorically as the basis for several of the arguments politicians and intellectuals are having these days concerning the role that America and the West have taken in Iraq, the Middle East and beyond."--Publisher's website.

The Judas Kiss

The Judas Kiss PDF Author: David Hare
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802135728
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Portraying the two critical moments in Oscar Wilde's late life -- when he decides to stay in England and face imprisonment and the night after his release, two years later -- David Hare's The Judas Kiss presents the consequences of taking an uncompromisingly moral position in a world defined by fear, expedience, and conformity.