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Books by David Hare
  | | Amy's View A Play by David Hare, Arthur Reigen Schnitzler Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1997 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-571-19179-6, ISBN: 0-571-19179-7 "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 Theatre, and transferred to the West End ..." |
 | | Racing Demon(Reprint) A Play by David Hare Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 1995 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-16106-5, ISBN: 0-571-16106-5 "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." |
 | | I'm Not Running (Faber Drama) by Sir David Hare Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2018 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-34580-9, ISBN: 0-571-34580-8 "Pauline Gibson has unintentionally become a national treasure by staying out of party politics, while one of her close friends from university, Jack Gould, is making his way to the top of the Labour Party. The twenty year span of their adult lives and their contrasting fortunes raise sharp questions about how to do good in the new century. David Hare’s new play I’m not Running, premieres at the National Theatre, London, in October 2018." |
 | | The Blue Room(1st Edition) A Play in Ten Intimate Acts by David Hare, Arthur Reigen Schnitzler Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1998 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3596-4, ISBN: 0-8021-3596-X "Arthur Schnitzler described Reigen, his loose series of sexual sketches, as "completely unprintable, " and indeed its premiere in 1921 spurred an obscenity suit. It was only when Max Ophuls made his famous film in 1950 that the work became better known as La Ronde. Now David Hare has reset these circular scenes of love and betrayal in the present day, with a cast of two actors playing a succession of characters whose sexual lives enmesh ..." |
 | | Skylight (Faber Drama) by David Hare Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2014 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-32113-1, ISBN: 0-571-32113-5 ""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 salvation. David Hare's new play, Skylight, is punctuated by such moments. They are the signs that a dramatist of the first rank is writi ..." |
 | | The Moderate Soprano (Faber Drama) by David Hare Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2019 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-34834-3, ISBN: 0-571-34834-3 "I want to give my country a model of perfection. My country needs cheering up. I’m the man to do it. In 1934, John Christie embarks on building an opera house on his Sussex estate, his vision of the sublime realised by a group of refugees from Nazi Germany, with his wife, necessarily, cast in the lead. The Moderate Soprano tells how Glyndebourne, this most English of institutions, derives its character firstly from a woman and secondly ..." |
 | | The Blue Touch Paper A Memoir >>>> A SUPERB SIGNED UK FIRST EDITION & FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK <<<< by David Hare, Harry Hill Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2015 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-29433-6, ISBN: 0-571-29433-2 "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 panoramic work of memoir, ending as Margaret Thatcher comes to power in 1979, David Hare describes his childhood, his Anglo-Catholic edu ..." |
 | | The Blue Touch Paper(1st Edition) A Memoir by David Hare Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2015 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-24918-7, ISBN: 0-393-24918-2 "“Frank, moving, and beguiling, The Blue Touch Paper is the fascinating story of becoming a writer in the 1960s and 70s when Britain was changing even faster than the author.”―Joan DidionDavid Hare has long been one of Britain’s best-known screenwriters and dramatists. He’s the author of more than thirty acclaimed plays that have appeared on Broadway, in the West End, and at the National Theatre. He wrote the screenplays for the hugely s ..." |
 | | Racing Demon - A Play (Acting Edition) by David Hare Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2014 by Samuel French ISBN-13: 978-0-573-11369-7, ISBN: 0-573-11369-6 "Forming the first part of the David Hare Trilogy (which also comprises of Murmuring Judges and The Absence of War) Racing Demon focuses on the Church of England. A disparate body, the Church now finds itself attracting unwanted publicity, wracked by the dissension of its members on matters of doctrine and practice and at odds with the government. In this climate the Reverend Lionel Espy and his team of clergymen struggle to make sense o ..." |
 | | Stuff Happens(1st Edition) A Play by David Hare Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2005 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-571-22606-1, ISBN: 0-571-22606-X ""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 Rumsfeld's response on April 11, 2003, following the infamous looting and pillaging of Baghdad. In David Hare's powerful new play chronicling the extraordinary process leading to the American invasion of Iraq, this statement provides entrée into the melee of diplomacy, political power ..." |
 | | South Downs With, Mere Fact, Mere Fiction by David Hare Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2011 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-27829-9, ISBN: 0-571-27829-9 "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 emotional new play, written at the invitation of the Rattigan estate as a response to "The Browning Version", is a meditation on faith, learni ..." |
 | | The Judas Kiss(1st Edition) by David Hare Paperback, 115 Pages, Published 1998 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3572-8, ISBN: 0-8021-3572-2 "The rise and fall (and ultimate rise again) of Oscar Wilde is usually portrayed as a personal drama pitting hubris against humorlessness, wit against witlessness, with the political and more obvious social aspects of the drama usually left out. In The Judas Kiss, David Hare, one of England's most noted political playwrights, rebalances the scales. Set during Wilde's trial for "acts of gross indecency," The Judas Kiss examines why the pl ..." |
 | | Murmuring Judges(Updated) by David Hare Paperback, 109 Pages, Published 1995 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-17219-1, ISBN: 0-571-17219-9 "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 David Hare's highly acclaimed trilogy about British institutions. Racing Demon, which won four awards as Play of the Year in 1990, was the first part of the trilogy and examined the Church. The Absence of War, a play about the Labour Party, comple ..." |
 | | The Bay at Nice, Wrecked Eggs(1st Edition) by David Hare Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1987 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-14694-9, ISBN: 0-571-14694-5 "Two plays death with efforts to authenticate a painting and a couple who contemplate divorce after ten years of marriage" |
 | | Obedience, Struggle and Revolt(Reprint) by David Hare Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53813-2, ISBN: 0-374-53813-1 ""Please reject absolutely the crazy . . . suggestion that playwrights don't have intentions . . . They do."In this intimate collection of writings by the author of Stuff Happens and Plenty, David Hare reveals a perspective as meticulously constructed as one of his dramas. In selections ranging from his beginnings as a politically charged upstart in the seventies through to his current position as one of the world's most respected playwr ..." |
 | | The Blue Touch Paper A Memoir (Paperback) by David Hare Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2016 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-29434-3, ISBN: 0-571-29434-0 "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 panoramic work of memoir, ending as Margaret Thatcher comes to power in 1979, David Hare describes his childhood, his Anglo-Catholic edu ..." |
 | | Behind the Beautiful Forevers by David Hare Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2014 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-31241-2, ISBN: 0-571-31241-1 "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 Mumbai airport is an obstacle, a makeshift slum. It's home to foul mouthed Zehrunisa and her garbage sorting son Abdul, entrepreneurs both. Sunil, twelve, picks plastic. Manju, schoolteacher, hopes to be the settlement's first woman to gain a degree. Asha, go-to wo ..." |
 | | The Judas Kiss by David Hare Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2012 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-29754-2, ISBN: 0-571-29754-4 "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 consequences of an uncompromisingly moral position in a world defined by fear and conformity.Originally produced in the West End and on Broad ..." |
 | | The Vertical Hour by David Hare Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2008 by Faber And Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-23352-6, ISBN: 0-571-23352-X |
 | | Obedience, Struggle and Revolt Lectures on Theatre by David Hare Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2007 by Faber & Faber Plays ISBN-13: 978-0-571-23219-2, ISBN: 0-571-23219-1 "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 presents the distilled result of a life ..." |
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