Books by david hare

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The story of two sisters whose lives are thrown into crisis by the effects of their unhappy love affairs. David Hare's previous films include "Wetherby" and "Paris by Night". ...Read More »

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Together, the pieces collected here form both a concealed professional autobiography and a commentary on British cultural life. ...Read More »

Nothing is more important to a modern political party than fund-raising. But the values of the donors can't always coincide with the professed beliefs of the party. And family scandal within the cabinet has the potential to throw both the money-raisers and the money-spenders into chaos. This richly imagined ensemble play about British public life looks at the way business, media and politics are n... ...Read More »

This is a new collection of some of David Hare's finest work, including "Skylight" (Winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, 1996), "Amy's View", "The Judas Kiss", and "My Zinc Bed". ...Read More »

In 1991, before an election they did not expect to win, the Conservative government made a fateful decision to privatize the railways. Now, twelve years later, as a result of that privatization, the taxpayer subsidizes rail more lavishly than ever before. In "The Permanent Way", David Hare tells the intricate, madcap story of a dream gone sour, by gathering together the first-hand accounts of thos... ...Read More »

Nadia Blye is a young American war reporter turned academic who teaches Political Studies at Yale. A brief holiday with her boyfriend brings her into contact with a kind of Englishman whose culture and background is a surprise and a challenge, both to her and to her relationship. For thirty five years, David Hare has written plays which catch the flavour of our times, the interconnection between o... ...Read More »

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 Since 1978, Hare has sought to address these and other questions in occasional lectures given both in Britain and abroad. Bringing to the lectern the same wit, insight and gift for the essential for which his plays are known, Hare pre... ...Read More »

'Better never to lay eyes on a man, never to have seen one. Ever since I was a child, I've been frightened: the look of men, yoking up the oxen, picking up sacks of wheat, calling to each other, their thick voices, their thick boots. Every time I passed, fear of their hands, of their touch. God made me weak and ugly. It's his way of keeping them away.' So pronounces one of five unmarried daughters... ...Read More »

In Richmond, England in 1923, Virginia Woolf is setting out to write the first words of her new book. In Los Angeles in 1951, a housewife, Laura Brown, is contemplating suicide. And in present-day New York, a hostess, Clarissa Vaughan, is planning a party for her friends. In extraordinary and ingenious ways, the film shows how a single day - and the novel Mrs Dalloway - inextricably link the lives... ...Read More »

From his early days as a playwright, David Hare has moved deliberately between stage, film and television, over the years building up a repertoire of work, most of which seeks to capture the changing feelings of contemporary life. Some of Hare's best and most characteristic screenplays are collected together here. ...Read More »

David Hare's new adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's classic and notorious "La Ronde". With just two actors (Nicole Kidman and Ian Glenn at the Donmar Warehouse, London) playing all of the parts, he creates a fascinating landscape of dream and longing. ...Read More »

1979. Esme Allen is a well-known West End actress at just the moment when the West End is ceasing to offer actors a regular way of life. The visit of her young daughter, Amy, with a new boyfriend sets in train a series of events which only find their shape sixteen years later.David Hare's new play, which mixes love, death, and the theatre in a heady and original way, was sold out at the National T... ...Read More »

Introduced by the author, this second volume contains work from the seventies and eighties which confirmed David Hare as 'one of the few major playwrights in our language' (New York Post). ...Read More »

Plays One:SlagTeeth 'n' Smiles KnuckleLicking HitlerPlentyIntroduced by the author, this first volume of David Hare's plays contains his work from the seventies, including the landmark play of that decade, Plenty, charting the development of 'one of the great post-war British playwrights' (Independent on Sunday). ...Read More »

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. ...Read More »

A young lawyer's involvement in her first case leads her through the criminal justice system, which is cracking at the seams. The text of this play was extensively revised by the author for the National Theatre's revival of the play and performance of the entire trilogy in Autumn 1993. ...Read More »

After a long period of turmoil, the Leader's office has imposed an uneasy period of calm on the Labour Party. But the leader, George Jones, knows he has only one chance of power.The third part of a trilogy of plays about British institutions, The Absence of War offers an original look at the way modern politicians think and act, as well as a meditation on the classic problems of leadership.Alongsi... ...Read More »

In conflict with government, torn with internal dissension on matters of doctrine and practice, the Church of England finds itself enjoying unwelcome publicity. David Hare's play, which details the struggle of four clergymen to make sense of their mission in South London, opened to universal acclaim. ...Read More »