DAVID HARE (1947 - )
| Nationality: | English |
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Plays by David Hare
Absence Of War, The |
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, London | 1993 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1993 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | This is the final play in a series of three, following Racing Demon and Murmuring Judges. As with the other plays, Hare has created a fiction based on fact, and for his research into the workings of the Labour Party he was granted access to top-level Labour Party meetings | |||||
Amy's View |
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1997 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | 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 daughter, Amy, with a new boyfriend sets in train a series of events which only find their shape sixteen years later. David Hare mixes love, death and the theatre in a heady and original way. Period: 1979, 1995. | |||||
Bay At Nice, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1986 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Domestic 1 Act | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | set in a Russian museum. It features Nedda di Montezemolo as a Russian aristocrat living under the Communist regime, Gail Adamitis as her daughter, Lionel Goldbart as her daughter's lover and Ron Megason as a museum assistant. The title comes from a painting by Matisse | |||||
Berlin |
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 2009 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Reading | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Hare reads a 55-minute meditation about Germany's restored capital - both what it represents in European history, and the peculiar part it has played in his own life. The reading is directed by Stephen Daldry | |||||
Blue Room, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1998 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Arthur Schnitzler (La Ronde) | |||||
| Synopsis: | a daisy chain of ten sexual encounters between five women and five men who are portrayed by on actor and one actress, the action is moved from the original Vienna to Modern London | |||||
Brassneck |
| 1st Produced: | Nottingham | 1973 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London, 1973 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Howard Brenton (TV 1975) | |||||
| Synopsis: | Property business in small town in Midlands expands world wide on death of founder, political corruption then bankruptcy leads to heroin importation | |||||
Breath Of Life, The |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Royal Haymarket, London | 2002 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 2002 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. Gaugin's epithet 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. Madeleine Palmer is a retired curator, living alone on the Isle of Wight. One day Francis Beale comes to her door, a woman she has met only once, and who is now enjoying sudden success, late in life, as a popular novelist. The progress of a single night comes fascinatingly to echo the hidden course of their lives . . . | |||||
Chain Play, A |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, (not for commercial sale), 2007 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Samuel Adamson, Moira Buffini, David Hare, Charlotte Jones, Frank McGuinness and Roy Williams each wrote a link for the Almeida's first chain play, performed for one night only as the theatre's major fund-raising event. | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Damage |
| 1st Produced: | Film by Louis Malle | 1992 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Screenplay | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||||
| Notes: | adapted from the novel by Josephine Hart | |||||
| Synopsis: | The first person narrator of the novel is Dr Stephen Fleming (Irons in the movie), a medical doctor turned politician whose promotion from MP to cabinet member is imminent. Just then Fleming is casually introduced to his grown-up son's enigmatic girlfriend Anna (Binoche) and helplessly falls for her. For as long as it lasts, Martyn, his son, has no idea that his father is having an extra-marital affair with his girlfriend (and later fiancée), and Anna does not seem to mind being a young man's partner and simultaneously his father's lover and object of desire. Fleming enjoys a brief period of sexual bliss meeting Anna in various European cities and having sex with her in unlikely places. Eventually, he buys her a small flat in central London where they meet on a regular basis. One day Martyn happens to get hold of that address and, curious, goes there to investigate. He climbs up a flight of stairs to the top floor, opens the unlocked door to the apartment, and is shocked to see his father making love to his | |||||
Deathsheads |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1971 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Sketch | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | in Christmas Present | |||||
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Deeds |
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse, Nottingham | 1978 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Plays & Players, May/June, London, 1978 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Brenton, Griffiths and Cambell | |||||
| Synopsis: | Baby dies from chemicals in Nuzzles Milk Powder, wife disappears,, husband jailed, wickedness all round. | |||||
Dreams Of Leaving |
| 1st Produced: | BBC | 1980 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1980 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Screenplay | - | Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Enemies |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 2006 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 16 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Maxim Gorky. In A version by David Hare from a literal translation by Charlotte Pike | |||||
| Synopsis: | 1905. Russia is at a turning point. Zakhar Bardin is from the landowning class, but is now the uneasy owner of a factory. His managing director is determined to face down militant workers on a point of principle. But the shutting of the business has tragic consequences for everyone concerned. Gorky's extraordinary play, which was written in exile and banned in his home country, presents a panoramic view of a restless society, with a bourgeoisie no longer sure of its own values, and a working class steadily facing up to the terrifying sacrifices ahead. Described by Ronald Bryden in the Observer in 1971 as 'a real discovery . . . the missing link between Chekhov and the Russian revolution', Enemies has a dramatic breadth, humour and ambition unique to Gorky. | |||||
England's Ireland |
| 1st Produced: | Amsterdam | 1972 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | 20 scenes with songs | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Bicat, Clark, Edgar, Fuchs, Brenton, Wilson | |||||
| Synopsis: | Episodic historical look at the British in Northern Ireland. Loyalist view followed by bias towards IRA with torturing British Soldiers and Orange Lodge excrement | |||||
Fanshen |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1975 | ||||
| Company: | Joint Stock | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1976 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 30 parts | |||||
| Notes: | book by William Hinton | |||||
| Synopsis: | how one village 400 miles from Beijing comes to terms with communism | |||||
Feasting With The Panthers |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1996 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Screenplay | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Galileo |
| 1st Produced: | WOW Cafe, NY | 2005 | ||||
| Company: | WOW Cafe Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Gethsemane |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
| Company: | National Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Once it was possible to do good by being good. Now the only way to do good is by being clever. 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 cabinet has the potential to throw both the money-raisers and the money-spenders into chaos. This richly imagined ensemble play about British public life looks at the way business, media and politics are now intertwined to nobody's advantage, as, in an unforgiving world, one character after another passes through Gethsemane. | |||||
Gift Of Money |
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | typescript at Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Great Exhibition, The |
| 1st Produced: | Hamstead Theatre, London | 1972 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1972 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | The study of a burnt out Labour MP who sold ourt | |||||
Heading Home |
| 1st Produced: | Televised | 1991 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1991 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | T.V. Play | - | Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
House Of Bernarda Alba |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 2005 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 17 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca (1936) | |||||
| Synopsis: | Five daughters live together in a single household with a tyrannical mother. When the father of all but the eldest girl dies, a cynical marriage is advanced which will have tragic consequences for the whole family. Lorca's fascinatingly modern play, rendered here in a new English version, speaks as powerfully as a political metaphor of oppression as it does as domestic drama. | |||||
How Brophy Made Good |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1969 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Gambit 17", London, 1971 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Inside Out |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1968 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Tony Bicet | |||||
| Synopsis: | adaptation of the diaries of Kafka | |||||
Ivanov |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN | - | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | |||||
| Synopsis: | disillusioned Russian estate owner has fallen out of love with his wife, his land and his friends | |||||
Judas Kiss, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1998 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Biographical | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | relationship between Oscar Wilde and Bosie whose true subject is not Wilde, but love; not Bosie, but betrayal | |||||
Knife, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Opera | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | music by Nick Bicat, lyrics by Tim Rose Price | |||||
| Synopsis: | the central character makes a painful journey to Morocco, only to discover, as some transsecuals do, that a change of gender does not necessarily bring a solution to all life's problems. | |||||
Knuckle |
| 1st Produced: | Comedy Theatre, London | 1974 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1973 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | corruption in Guildford is uncovered as young arms dealer investigates the disappearance of his sister | |||||
Lay By |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1971 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays & Players" Nov, 1971 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written by Brenton, Clark, Griffiths, Hare, Poliakoff, Stoddart, Wilson | |||||
| Synopsis: | Fellatio as rape gets perpetrator ten years and pregnant heroin addict victim committed to Holloway. Denouement as main characters are washed in blood and made into jam. | |||||
Licking Hitler |
| 1st Produced: | BBC | 1978 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1978 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Television | - | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | a middle class young woman's unceremonious introduction to specialist war work | |||||
Life Of Galileo, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Madman Theory Of Deterrence, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1983 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Sketch | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | in The Big One | |||||
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Manningham by Winthrop |
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | typescript at Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Map Of The World, A |
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1982 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 15 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | when they attend a World poverty conference in Bombay | |||||
Mother Courage And Her Children |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN | - | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 32 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Murmuring Judges |
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, London | 1991 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1991 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 20 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A young lawyer's involvement in her first case leads her through the criminal justice system, which is cracking at the seams. The text of this play was extensively revised by the author for the National Theatre's revival of the play and performance of the entire trilogy in Autumn 1993 | |||||
My Zinc Bed |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 2001 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | continues the run of work in which Hare has sought to describe the atmosphere of contemporary Britain. A successful entrepreneur, Victor Quinn, employs a young poet, Paul Peplow, to decorate the legend of his fast-growing Internet business. Nothing prepares either man for the outcome | |||||
Paris By Night |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1989 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1989 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Screenplay | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Charlotte Rampling plays a more challenging role than usual in this anti-Thatcherite tale with a which is subtle enough to catch the ironies of life and the foibles of homo sapiens. Its staginess and somewhat literary and very English dialogue and manner makes for a non-naturalistic unfolding of a story about extremes and the everyday | |||||
Permanent Way, The; or, La Voie Anglais |
| 1st Produced: | Theare Royal, York | 2003 | ||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 2003 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | cast play 40 parts | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | In 1991, before an election they did not expect to win, the Conservative government made a fateful decision to privatise the railways. Now, twelve years later, as a result of that privatisation, the taxpayer subsidizes rail more lavishly than ever before. In The Permanent Way, David Hare, working with actors from the Out of joint Company, tells the intricate, madcap story of a dream gone sour, by gathering together the first hand accounts of those most intimately involved - from every level of the system. Funny, tragic and compelling, the play offers an extraordinary parable of British mismanagement that raises questions about the recent history of the country | |||||
Platonov |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
| Company: | Tara Ulemek Foundation | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 2002 | ISBN | 978-0571210510 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | |||||
![]() | This funny and romantic tale tells of a Russian schoolmaster facing up to the implications of being irresistibly attractive to four different women | |||||
Plenty |
| 1st Produced: | 1978 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1978 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A theatrical vision of a world that was won and lost during and after World War II. | |||||
Power of Yes, The: A dramatist seeks to understand the financial crisis |
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | On 15 September 2008, capitalism came to a grinding halt. As sub-prime mortgages and toxic securities continued to dominate the headlines, this spring the National Theatre asked David Hare to write an urgent and immediate work to be staged this autumn that sought to find out what had happened, and why. Meeting with many of the key players from the financial world, David Hare has created The Power of Yes, which is not so much a play as a jaw-dropping account of how, as the banks went bust, capitalism was replaced by a socialism that bailed out the rich alone. | |||||
Pravda: A Fleet Street Comedy |
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, London | 1985 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN | - | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||||
| Notes: | written with Howard Brenton | |||||
| Synopsis: | only death provides the real climate for love - modern retelling of the myth of Orpheus | |||||
Racing Demon |
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, London | 1990 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1990 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | team of clergymen struggle to make sense of their mission in South London as the arrival of a zealous young curate intensifies their personal and professional problems | |||||
Rules Of The Game, The |
| 1st Produced: | New, London | 1971 | ||||
| Company: | National Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello. English Version by David Hare and Roberty Rietty | |||||
| Synopsis: | man appears to condone his wife's affair, but she will never be entirely free | |||||
Saigon Year Of The Cat |
| 1st Produced: | Thames TV | 1983 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1983 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | T.V. Play | - | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | 1974 Barbara works in Saigon for a British bank. She becomes friendly with Bob who works as a cultural attache for the American Embassy. He is really a CIA officer. He discovers that the Viet Cong are poised to take Saigon. The ambassador refuses to believe him. | |||||
Secret Rapture, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1988 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | tragedy and disaster for lovers and an evangelical, earnest husband | |||||
Skylight |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1995 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Examination of matters of life, love and circumstance between an older man and a younger woman. | |||||
Slag |
| 1st Produced: | Hamstead Theatre Club, London | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London (Plays & Players June 1970), 1971 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Satire | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | an embattled contemporary morality play full of sardonic fun and spiky indignation | |||||
Strapless |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1990 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1989 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Screenplay | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | The story of two sisters whose lives are thrown into crisis by the effects of their unhappy love affairs | |||||
Stuff Happens |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 2004 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | The famous response of Donald Rumsfeld, American Secretary of Defense, to the looting of Baghdad, at a press conference on 11 April 2003, provides the title for a new play, specially written for the Olivier Theatre, about the extraordinary process leading up to the invasion of Iraq. How does the world settle its differences, now there is only one superpower? What happens to leaders risking their credibility with sceptical publics? From events which have dominated international headlines for the last two years David Hare has fashioned both a historical narrative and a human drama about the frustrations of power and the limits of diplomacy. | |||||
Teeth 'N' Smiles |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1976 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play with Music | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | music by Nick Bicat, lyrics by Tony Bicat | |||||
| Synopsis: | a rock band visits Cambridge in 1969: the characters look back to the middle class transition of the fifties whilst the play looks back to the class reversal of the pop decade | |||||
Vertical Hour, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 2008 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | ||||||
| Synopsis: | tells the story of a young American war reporter-turned-academic who travels abroad and finds herself caught in a most surprising romantic triangle, pulled between the affections of her lover and her lover's father. nytheatre.com | |||||
Via Dolorosa |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1998 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Polemic | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Performed by the author | |||||
| Synopsis: | In 1997, after many invitations, the fifty year old playwright resolved finally to visit the fifty year old state of Israel. The play offers a mediation on the trip to Israel and Palestine which leaves hare questioning his own values as searchingly as the powerful beliefs of those he met. | |||||
Wall |
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Reading | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | a searching 40-minute study of the Israel/Palestine separation barrier which will one day stretch 486 miles and be over four times as long as the Berlin Wall and in places, twice as high. The reading is directed by Stephen Daldry | |||||
Wetherby |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1985 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1985 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Screenplay | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | In the winter of 1947 a young woman comes to London. She falls in with two different crowds: a literary set in Soho and a group of property dealers in Notting Hill. Janetta's attempt to reconcile these worlds ends in disaster | |||||
What Happened To Blake? |
| 1st Produced: | 1970 | |||||
| Company: | Portable Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
When Shall We Live? |
| 1st Produced: | Westminster Abbey, London | 1996 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dean's Office, Kings College, London (Faber 1998 with Via Dolorosa), 1996 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Lecture | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | the eleventh Eric Symes Abbot Memorial Lecture | |||||
| Synopsis: | addresses questions of faith | |||||
Wrecked Eggs |
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1986 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Domestic 1 Act | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Don't you remember there was only one bullet fired, it was a fully loaded gun and only one bullet was fired | |||||
