David Hare has written more than thirty plays, including Skylight, Amy’s View, The Blue Room, and Stuff Happens. His screenplays, including The Hours, Plenty, and The Reader, have twice been nominated for an Academy Award and three times for the Golden Globes. He lives in London.
55 Ebooks by David Hare
David Hare: Power of Yes
On 15 September 2008, capitalism came to a grinding halt. As sub-prime mortgages and toxic securities continued to dominate the headlines well into 2009, this spring the National Theatre asked David …
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David Hare: Berlin/Wall
Berlin/Wall In two contrasted readings for the stage, David Hare visits a place where a famous wall has come down; then another where a wall is going up. Berlin For his whole adult life, David Hare h …
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David Hare: South Downs and Mere Fact, Mere Fiction
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 …
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David Hare: Blue Touch Paper
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 …
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David Hare: Murmuring Judges
A young lawyer's involvement in her first case leads her through a criminal justice system – police, courts and prisons – which is cracking at the seams. Murmuring Judges is the second play in D …
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David Hare: Judas Kiss
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 …
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David Hare: Blue Room
Schnitzler described Reigen, his loose series of sexual sketches, as 'completely unprintable'. The company that first presented them was prosecuted for obscenity in 1921. It was only when M …
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David Hare: Breath of Life
'Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.'Gauguin's aphorism serves as the motto for this morality tale of two women, both in their sixties, whose lives are interwoven in ways nei …
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David Hare: David Hare Plays 2
This second volume of plays by David Hare contains work from the 1970s and 1980s which confirmed him as one of the major contemporary playwrights in the English language. It includes Fanshen, his rem …
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David Hare: My Zinc Bed
David Hare's play, My Zinc Bed, continues the run of work in which he has sought to describe the atmosphere of contemporary Britain. A successful entrepreneur, Victor Quinn, employs a young poet …
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David Hare: Obedience, Struggle and Revolt
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 addres …
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David Hare: David Hare Plays 1
This first volume of David Hare's plays contains his work from the 1970s, including his landmark play of that decade, Plenty, charting the development of 'one of the great post-war British …
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David Hare: Plenty
This play ran at the National Theatre, London, throughout 1978 and the New York production in the autumn of 1982 was equally well received. In counterpointing the experiences of an Englishwoman helpi …
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David Hare: Racing Demon
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 a …
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David Hare: Skylight
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. …
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David Hare: Via Dolorosa
'My whole life, it's been assumed, Western civilisation is an old bitch gone in the teeth. And so people say, go to Israel. Because in Israel at least people are fighting. In Israel, they&a …
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David Hare: Writing Left-Handed
The leading British writer-director of his generation, David Hare is also one of the most productive. The last two years have seen the outstanding success of two stage plays, The Secret Rapture and R …
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David Hare: Vertical Hour
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 a …
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David Hare: Stuff Happens
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 Donald Rumsfeld, American …
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David Hare: Permanent Way
In 1991, before an election they did not expect to win, the Conservative government made a fateful decision to privatize the railways. As a result, the taxpayer subsidizes rail more lavishly then eve …
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David Hare: David Hare Plays 3
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. …
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David Hare: Gethsemane
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 …
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David Hare: Absence of War
The Absence of War offers a meditation on the classic problems of leadership, and is the third part of a critically acclaimed trilogy of plays (Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges) about British instituti …
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David Hare: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
It's not just that rich people don't know what they've got. They don't even know what they throw away. India is beginning to prosper. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumb …
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Anton Chekhov: Young Chekhov
Young Chekhov contains a trilogy of plays by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, written as he emerged as the greatest playwright of the late nineteenth century. The three works, Platanov, Ivanov and T …
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David Hare: Asking Around
David Hare's trilogy of plays – Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges, The Absence of War – first presented at the National Theatre, London, in 1993, examines the crises facing three great British inst …
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David Hare: Amy’s View
It is 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 boyfrie …
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David Hare: Acting Up
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 …
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David Hare: Secret Rapture
An elderly antiquarian bookseller has just died at his home in the country. His two daughters come to attend to things. Isobel, who has been nursing him, is a partner in a small design firm. Marion i …
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Federico Garcia Lorca: House of Bernarda Alba
Finished just two months before the author's murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco's supporters, The House of Bernarda Alba is now accepted as Lorca's great masterpiece of love …
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David Hare: Moderate Soprano
'I want to give my country a model of perfection… Nothing less. My country needs cheering up. I'm the man to do it.'Nobody can doubt John Christie's passion nor his formidable w …
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Henrik Ibsen: Master Builder
The change will come. And it's not far away, I promise you that. Some figure will emerge from the dark screaming 'Get out of the way'. And not far behind others will follow… The youn …
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David Hare: Red Barn
The great detective writer George Simenon escaped France at the end of World War Two, and arrived in the USA to start again. With his American wife, he settled at Shadow Rock Farm in Lakeville. Years …
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David Hare: I’m Not Running
Should I run? This is the question Pauline Gibson is asking herself. She has spent her adult life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a campaign for local health provision. When she crosses paths wi …
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Henrik Ibsen: Peter Gynt
In this radical new version of Peer Gynt, David Hare kidnaps Henrik Ibsen's most famous hero and runs away with him into the twenty-first century. Stripped of fretwork and greenery, the play is …
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Anton Chekhov: Uncle Vanya
Russia, late summer at the close of the nineteenth century. Vanya and his niece Sonya have worked for years to manage the country estate. Into this ordered and regular household come two new visitors …
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David Hare: Blue Room
The Tony Award–winning playwright and screenwriter delivers “a witty, contemporary reworking of Arthur Schnitzler’s nineteenth-century shocker La Ronde” (The Mail on Sunday, f …
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David Hare: Secret Rapture and Other Plays
A collection of five plays from the Tony Award–winning playwright and screenwriter, “the premiere political dramatist writing in English” (The Washington Post). David Hare, & …
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Cowhig Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig: Lidless
The third winner of the Yale Drama Series competition for emerging playwrights—a haunting and provocative imagining of the reunion, years later, of a Guantánamo detainee and the female i …
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Hare David Hare & Grise Virginia Grise: blu
Announcing the 2010 winner of the Yale Drama Prize Memory, history, and culture collide with the starlit rooftop dreams of a myth-inspired character as Soledad and her partner, Hailstorm, redefine fa …
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David Hare: Buddha in Me, The Buddha in You
Do you want to be happier? Find inner calm? Enjoy a rich and rewarding life? Here’s how… The Buddha in Me, the Buddha in You combines the tried-and-tested wisdom of Nichiren Buddhism with the best …
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Anton Chekhov: Ivanov
This adaptation by David Hare premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London in 1997 starring Ralph Fiennes This is a drama of a Russian landowner’s half-farcical, half serious personal crisis as he plumme …
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David Hare: The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir
“Extraordinary. . . . This is no butterfly-watching stroll through a life.” —Dwight Garner, New York Times David Hare has long been one of Britain’s best-known screenwriters and dramatists. He’s the …
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David Hare: Beat the Devil
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 …
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David Hare: We Travelled
'David Hare's great quality has always been his refusal to accept the division between fact and imagination. His creative invention is fired by public realities and in turn he makes those r …
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George Bernard Shaw: Heartbreak House
When Ellie Dunn joins a house-party at the home of the eccentric Captain Shotover, she causes a stir with her decision to marry for money rather than love, and the Captain’s forthright daughter Hesio …
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David Hare: Straight Line Crazy
For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses was the most powerful man in New York. Though never elected to office, he manipulated those who were through a mix of guile, charm and intimidation. Motiva …
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David Hare: Collected Screenplays
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 …
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Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children
This version of Brecht’s great anti-war play by playwright David Hare was premiered by the National Theatre, London, in November 1995. It adopts a freer approach to the text than many editions, adapt …
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Anton Chekhov: Ivanov
This adaptation by David Hare premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London in 1997 starring Ralph Fiennes This is a drama of a Russian landowner’s half-farcical, half serious personal crisis as he plumme …
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Brecht Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children
Mother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht’s best work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history. This translation by Michael Hofmann was publish …
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Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children
This version of Brecht’s great anti-war play by playwright David Hare was premiered by the National Theatre, London, in November 1995. It adopts a freer approach to the text than many editions, adapt …
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Deborah E. Lipstadt: Denial
Now a major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall and Tom Wilkinson. “A compelling book: memoir and courtroom drama, a work of historical and legal import. ” — Jewish Week …
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David Hare & Howard Brenton: Pravda
The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart, and democracy itself cannot function. Pravda (which means "truth") is a satire written at th …
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David Hare & Howard Brenton: Pravda
The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart, and democracy itself cannot function. Pravda (which means "truth") is a satire written at th …
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