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Obedience, Struggle and Revolt : Lectures on theatre by David Hare
Category: Culture
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 ...Show more
Red Barn by David Hare; Georges Simenon (Original Author)
Category: Classics | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
"Hitchcock would approve." - The Times (UK) "A dark story of dissolving identity... Mesmeric." - Observer Connecticut, 1969. On their way back from a party, two couples struggle home through the snow. Not everyone arrives safely. The great detective writer Georges Simenon escaped France at the end of Wo ...Show more
Skylight by David Hare
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
"There are times in the theatre when you suddenly find yourself in the grip of silence. There is no fidgeting or coughing, no shifting about in seats: the audience's attention is so tense it is almost palpable. This is because it is both thrilling and dangerous: a fight to the death, or the dawning of s ...Show more
South Downs and Mere Fact, Mere Fiction by David Hare
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
1962: A public school on the South Downs. John Blakemore is a solitary boy who finds it impossible either to understand or adapt to the ways of the school. His adolescent earnestness put off teacher and pupil alike. And now suddenly he seems to be in danger of losing his only friend. David Hare's emotio ...Show more
Stuff Happens by David Hare
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Stuff happens... And it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.' The famous response of American Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to the looting of Baghdad at a press conference in 2003 provides the title for David Hare's play a ...Show more
The Blue Touch Paper - A Memoir by David Hare
Category: Biography
When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written five of them. Yet he was born in 1947 into an anonymous suburban street in Hastings. It is a world he believes to be as completely vanished as Victorian England. Now in his first ...Show more
The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir by David Hare
Category: Biography
When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written five of them. Yet he was born in 1947 into an anonymous suburban street in Hastings. It is a world he believes to be as completely vanished as Victorian England. Now in his first ...Show more
The Breath of Life by David Hare
Category: Film & Tv
"Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge". Gauguin's epigram serves as the motto for this moral tale of two women, both in their 60s, whose lives are interwoven in ways neither of them yet understands. Madeline Palmer is a retired curator, living alone on the Isle of Wight. One day to her door come ...Show more
The Judas Kiss by David Hare
Category: Poetry & Plays
Oscar Wilde's philosophy leads him on a path to destruction. The Judas Kiss describes two pivotal moments: the day Wilde decides to stay in England and face imprisonment, and the night when the lover for whom he risked everything betrays him. With a burning sense of outrage, David Hare presents the cons ...Show more