David Hare Plays 3

Author: David Hare
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571301347
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 460

Book Description
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.

Plenty

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

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

The Judas Kiss

Author: David Hare
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802135728
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
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.

Skylight

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

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.

Amy's View

Author: David Hare
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573627002
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description
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.

Stuff Happens

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

Book Description
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.

Racing Demon

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

Book Description
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

Author: David Hare
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571366090
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 39

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.

The Vertical Hour

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

Book Description
"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.

Acting Up

Author: David Hare
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571318401
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
In 1997 the 50-year-old playwright David Hare decided to visit the 50-year-old state of Israel and write a play - Via Dolorosa - about the conflict. He then chose to become the actor of his own play and set about learning to act the monologue for an uninterrupted 95 minutes on stage. Acting Up is a diary of the ups and downs of that learning curve as well as an insight into what it is actors, directors, producers and stage staff actually do in rehearsals. Hare's hilarious diary of his experience on both sides of the Atlantic tells of his difficulties in coming to terms with his terrifying change of career, but also grapples with more serious questions about the nature of acting itself.