DAVID HARE   (1947 - )


David Hare
   Nationality:
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Plays by David Hare

DAVID HARE
Absence Of War, The
1st Produced:
National Theatre, London
1993
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1993
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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
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DAVID HARE
Amy's View
1st Produced:
1997
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1997
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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.
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DAVID HARE
Bay At Nice, The
1st Produced:
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1986
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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
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DAVID HARE
Blue Room, The
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1998
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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
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DAVID HARE
Brassneck
1st Produced:
Nottingham
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London
1973
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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
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DAVID HARE
Breath Of Life, The
1st Produced:
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
2002
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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 . . .
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DAVID HARE
Chain Play, A
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber and Faber, (not for commercial sale)
2007
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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: -
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DAVID HARE
Damage
1st Produced:
Film by Louis Malle
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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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
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DAVID HARE
Deathsheads
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Sketch
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: in Christmas Present
Synopsis:
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DAVID HARE
Deeds
1st Produced:
Playhouse, Nottingham
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Plays & Players, May/June, London
1978
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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.
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DAVID HARE
Dreams Of Leaving
1st Produced:
BBC
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1980
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Genre:
Screenplay
-
Parts:
Male
13
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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DAVID HARE
Enemies
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
2006
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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.
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DAVID HARE
England's Ireland
1st Produced:
Amsterdam
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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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
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DAVID HARE
Fanshen
1st Produced:
London
1975
Company:
Joint Stock
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1976
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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
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DAVID HARE
Feasting With The Panthers
1st Produced:
-
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Screenplay
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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DAVID HARE
Galileo
1st Produced:
WOW Cafe, NY
2005
Company:
WOW Cafe Theater
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht
Synopsis: -
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DAVID HARE
Gift Of Money
1st Produced:
Unproduced
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: typescript at Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Synopsis:
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DAVID HARE
Great Exhibition, The
1st Produced:
Hamstead Theatre, London
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1972
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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
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DAVID HARE
Heading Home
1st Produced:
Televised
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1991
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Genre:
T.V. Play
-
Parts:
Male
12
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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DAVID HARE
House Of Bernarda Alba
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
2005
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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.
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DAVID HARE
How Brophy Made Good
1st Produced:
London
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Gambit 17", London
1971
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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DAVID HARE
Inside Out
1st Produced:
London
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
4
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written with Tony Bicet
Synopsis: adaptation of the diaries of Kafka
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DAVID HARE
Ivanov
1st Produced:
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
1997
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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
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DAVID HARE
Judas Kiss, The
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1998
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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
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DAVID HARE
Knife, The
1st Produced:
New York
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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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.
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DAVID HARE
Knuckle
1st Produced:
Comedy Theatre, London
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1973
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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
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DAVID HARE
Lay By
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays & Players" Nov
1971
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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.
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DAVID HARE
Licking Hitler
1st Produced:
BBC
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1978
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Genre:
Television
-
Parts:
Male
8
Female
2
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: -
Synopsis: a middle class young woman's unceremonious introduction to specialist war work
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DAVID HARE
Life Of Galileo, The
1st Produced:
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht
Synopsis:
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DAVID HARE
Madman Theory Of Deterrence, The
1st Produced:
London
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Sketch
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: in The Big One
Synopsis:
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DAVID HARE
Manningham by Winthrop
1st Produced:
Unproduced
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: typescript at Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Synopsis:
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DAVID HARE
Map Of The World, A
1st Produced:
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1982
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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
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DAVID HARE
Mother Courage And Her Children
1st Produced:
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
1995
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
32
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht
Synopsis:
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DAVID HARE
Murmuring Judges
1st Produced:
National Theatre, London
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1991
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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
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DAVID HARE
My Zinc Bed
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
2001
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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
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DAVID HARE
Paris By Night
1st Produced:
-
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1989
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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 an