David Hare

David Hare, who was born in Sussex in 1947, is one of Britain’s most internationally performed playwrights. He has written more than twenty stage plays, among them Plenty, The Secret Rapture, Racing Demon, The Absence of War, Skylight, Amy’s View, Via Dolorosa, The Permanent Way, and Stuff Happens.

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Berlin/Wall

David Hare
Faber and Faber, Inc.

In two contrasted readings for the stage, David Hare visits a place where a famous wall has come down, and a place where a wall is going up. BERLIN For...


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The Permanent Way

David Hare
Faber and Faber, Inc.


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The Vertical Hour

David Hare
Faber and Faber, Inc.

"Politics is about the reconciliation of the irreconcilable," says Nadia Blye, a young American war reporter turned academic who teaches political studies at...


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Obedience, Struggle and Revolt

David Hare
Faber and Faber, Inc.

“Please reject absolutely the crazy . . . suggestion that playwrights don’t have intentions . . . They do.” In this intimate collection of writings by...


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Stuff Happens

David Hare
Faber and Faber, Inc.

"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." Such was Donald...


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The Breath of Life

David Hare
Faber and Faber, Inc.

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 sixties, whose...


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Asking Around

David Hare
Faber and Faber, Inc.

The candid interviews that formed the basis for David Hare's famed trilogy of plays about the state of Britain in the early 1990s. Asking Around is a...


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My Zinc Bed

David Hare
Faber and Faber, Inc.

A darkly comic look at love and addiction by the author of Amy's View When struggling poet, reformed alcoholic, and devout Alcoholics Anonymous adherent...


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Acting Up

David Hare
Faber and Faber, Inc.

After writing a monologue on the subject of Israel and Palestine, David Hare forced himself to make his debut on the professional stage at the age of...


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