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 David Hare Papers, Biographical Sketch
British playwright David Hare was born June 5, 1947, in St. Leonards, Sussex, England, the son of Clifford and Agnes Gilmour Hare.
Hare's plays usually present a romantic relationship between members of the middle class and use the decline and corruption of the characters' careers, relationships, and idealism to reflect historical events.
David Hare's papers were acquired by the HRHRC in 1993.
www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/hare.bio.html   (898 words)

  
 Salon Brilliant Careers | David Hare
Hare describes her in "Acting Up" as a woman "who has had a good war, but then is disillusioned by peace." Susan lives in a permanent state of ineffectual dissent, but has no way of expressing this dissent other than to disrupt the lives of those around her.
Hare returned to England and the stage in 1985 with "Pravda," an attack on the British press -- Rupert Murdoch in particular -- written in collaboration with Howard Brenton.
Hare is such a good writer that, about two-thirds of the way through "Acting Up," when he is bitterly lamenting what he is missing as a playwright in order to be an actor, you begin to seriously wish he would talk about writing in the way that he has been talking about acting.
archive.salon.com /people/bc/1999/12/07/hare/print.html   (2001 words)

  
 Via Dolorosa - David Hare
Hare does not so much take sides between Israeli and Arab, orthodox or secular Jew, as he illuminates the maddening complexity of the situation, the seemingly insoluble contradictions of faith, hope and suspicion.
Politely but firmly Hare questions religion, the main point being that he believes that Christians have a "side-bet" with god, believing in a hereafter which allows them to avoid some of the issues of the here and now, while agnostics of Hare's stripe firmly believe that our obligation is to the here and now.
Hare rightly criticizes the present times and government (and church) policy in so many of his plays, but he does not seem to have much sense of history.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/hared/viadolo.htm   (1714 words)

  
 David Parlett's Hare & Tortoise game
Hare and Tortoise was first published in Britain by Intellect Games UK in 1974 and has been in print ever since, though Intellect has long since vanished from the scene.
Hare and Tortoise is a uniquely original race game in that movement is governed by skill rather than chance.
In Aesop's classic fable the hare is so confident of winning that he takes a nap and wakes up too late to discover that he has been overtaken by the plodding tortoise.
www.davidparlett.co.uk /haretort   (1623 words)

  
 David Hare Papers, Scope and Contents
All of David Hare's stage plays, teleplays, and screenplays from the beginning of his career through 1991 are represented in some form and, along with articles, essays, lectures, and some unpublished works, comprise the largest series.
Hare also was a founder of the Joint Stock Theatre Group, and its collaborative workshop approach to writing and producing plays can be seen in his FANSHEN notebook and notes.
Indications of Hare's political leanings are found in the minutes of the June 20 Group, essays on Thatcher and the political right, and correspondence with organizations such as the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Justice, the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign, and the INDEX OF CENSORSHIP.
www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/hare.scope.html   (1118 words)

  
 David Hare
Playwright Sir David Hare was born in Bexhill, East Sussex, England on 5 June 1947, and was educated at Lancing College and Jesus College, Cambridge.
David Hare, who arrived on the playwriting scene in the watershed year of 1968, is a dedicated social commentator.
Hare's plays naturally offer a portrait of his own divided temperament in which the romantic and the rebel are often at war.
www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth253   (1463 words)

  
 Mark Borghi Fine Art Inc - American Art - David Hare (1917 -1992)
David Hare, a sculptor and photographer, was born in New York City March 10, 1917.
By this time, Hare had developed an automatist process of photographic image-making, which was dubbed "heatage" by the gallery owner Sidney Janis (an unfixed negative from an 8-by-10-inch plate was heated from below, causing the emulsion, and thus the image, to melt and flow).
Hare was included in the Sao Paulo Bienal of 1951 and 1957, and in 1958 he received a sculpture commission for the Uris building at 750 Third Avenue, New York.
borghi.org /american/hare.html   (630 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On David Hare
David Hare, the playwright, said: "Arthur was the last of the three great theatrical voices of the American century - [Eugene] O'Neill, [Tennessee] Williams, Miller.".
David Hare talks to Rachel Sylvester about his new play, which uses the railways as a metaphor for the failings of Blairism and the neurosis of the Labour Government.
In cinema, David Hare, Hanif Kureishi and Mike Leigh led a phalanx of film-makers eager to explore this turbulent period, while playwrights as various as Caryl Churchill, Stephen Berkoff, Hare (again) and Doug Lucie led the wave of social commentary in theatre.
news.surfwax.com /art/files/David_Hare_Art.html   (1005 words)

  
 7.30 Report - 12/10/2004: Sir David Hare examines the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
SIR DAVID HARE: That's the argument at the centre of the play in the sense that, you know, my wife is Jewish and she has made a very conscious choice that she wishes to be a diaspora Jew, that's what he wants.
I play a role, my role is David Hare, that's the role I play, and so you can call it acting, but the things that real actors do and I've certainly been lucky enough to work with some of the greatest actors in the world, I couldn't begin to go near.
SIR DAVID HARE: Because it seems to me that one of the wonderful things that happened in Australia is that feminism in the '60s and '70s was stronger here than anywhere in the world.
www.abc.net.au /7.30/content/2004/s1218625.htm   (1445 words)

  
 Additional references about David Hare (from Hare, David) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
British playwright and director David Hare was a prolific playwright of the late 20th and early 21st centuries whose plays often express political viewpoints and are generally critical of British society.
In Judaism, God is believed to have promised David an eternal dynasty, and his royal line came to symbolize the primary bond between God and the nation of Israel.
These rabbits and hares are abundant in the brushy woods and gardens of eastern North America, on the western plains and deserts, on mountains, and even in the Arctic snows.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-212857?&query=david   (875 words)

  
 Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Hare - Biography
David Hare was born on March 10, 1917, in New York.
Hare opened a commercial photography studio in New York in 1940, and in the same year the Julien Levy Gallery, New York, gave him a solo exhibition.
Hare was included in the São Paulo Bienal of 1951 and 1957, and in 1958 he received a sculpture commission for the Uris building at 750 Third Avenue, New York.
www.guggenheimcollection.org /site/artist_bio_61B.html   (391 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On David Hare
But David Hare once said that "acting is a judgment of character": in other words, what we respond to is some vital element within the performer's soul...
This is an edited extract from David Hare's introduction to Obedience, Struggle and Revolt, a collection of his speeches, to be published by Faber and Faber on August 4 at 12.
Scottish watchmaker David Hare, who founded the Hindu College in Calcutta, was denied a Christian burial when he died of cholera in 1842on the grounds that he had become more Hindu than Christian.
news.surfwax.com /authors/files/David_Hare_Book.html   (2606 words)

  
 Stuff Happens - David Hare
Hare then traces the path to invasion, hopping along in short scenes towards the inevitable (and making clear from early on that it was inevitable).
Hare is fairly judicious in the material he uses, though he has made some interesting choices in shaping it.
Hare certainly makes Colin Powell a more heroic figure than he deserves to be; a voice of wisdom and restraint, Hare ultimately can't completely reconcile what he's built up with Powell's complicity in events, especially in the infamous and outrageous speech before the United Nations that ultimately destroyed any credibility he may have had left.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/hared/stuff.htm   (1555 words)

  
 Stuff Happens - David Hare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
David Hare’s latest political drama is, in his own words, "a history play which happens to center on recent history; " the play outlines the political events of the last two years which led up to the war in Iraq and its aftermath.
Hare’s text, with its blatant left wing bias, is, nevertheless, preaching mainly to the converted among the full audiences which the play is drawing.
In his program note, Hare states that "this surely is a play and not a documentary" but the excessive weight of information and narration in the play makes this debatable.
www.culturevulture.net /Theater7/StuffHappens.htm   (817 words)

  
 David Hare (1947- )
Hare served as literary manager (1969-70) and resident dramatist (1970-71) for the Royal Court Theatre, London.
Hare continued his satire in a trilogy of plays which set their sights on one of Hare's favorite targets--institutions.
Hare's awards include the BAFTA Award (1979), the New York Drama Critics Circle Award (1983), the Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear (1985), the Olivier Award (1990), and the London Theatre Critics' Award (1990).
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 The Breath of Life - David Hare
"David Hare has been, and will again be, the author of much stronger scripts than this one; but what he has constructed here is a wide-ranging, comic and often angry duologue.
He drizzles glib dialogue over their encounter; like coulis on a plate, it makes the dish look more appetizing than it actually is. (...) Hare, with his suave idiom, substitutes the sounds of intellectual authority for the experience of emotional inquiry.
English playwright David Hare was born in 1947.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/hared/breathofl.htm   (1475 words)

  
 London Calling - How David Hare took Broadway. By Jacob Weisberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hare feeds an appetite for a theater engaged with society, which our domestic dramatic economy isn't satisfying at the moment.
Hare's first produced play, Slag (1970), is a kind of dystopian fantasy about radical feminism, in which the attempt to run a girls' school dissolves into absurd infighting.
Hare's first play to open at the National Theatre in London in 1978 (and currently being revived there) was Plenty, later made into a film with Meryl Streep.
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 Skylight - David Hare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hare uses the simple technique of alternating loaded dialogue between two arguing individuals to put forward conflicting social and political points of view.
Hare’s drama takes place in the midst of what Billy Roche once called "a world without metaphor." In Irish plays, this kind of class conflict dialectic is usually cast in broad symbols and grand statements to which the drama rarely measures in itself (think of the disastrous Hinterland for an example).
It is good to see David Hare on the Irish stage precisely because he does provide an alternative to the usual stuff, and this is a good play which has been very well acted and directed.
www.culturevulture.net /Theater6/Skylight.htm   (720 words)

  
 At home onstage and in Hollywood / 'Hours' screenwriter David Hare has 2 shows opening in Bay Area   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hare visited artists, political and military leaders, scholars and families on both sides of the conflict.
Hare, a youthful-looking 55, took a long breath before explaining why he felt compelled to revisit "Via Dolorosa." "I was tired of shouting at the television.
Hare, who wrote a series of plays critiquing British institutions in the 1990s, said his views on theater and politics have tempered some over the past decade.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/01/21/DD183057.DTL&type=printable   (964 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | The Guardian profile: Sir David Hare
David Hare is a remarkable playwright who, for over three decades, has turned a laser-like eye on the condition of Britain.
The extraordinary thing about Hare is that he has managed to remain a critic of society and a scourge of hypocrisy while acquiring the accoutrements of success: a title, a house in Hampstead, a blissfully happy second marriage to the independently famous Nicole Farhi.
Hare, alone of his generation, shows women not as marginal victims or secretarial helpers but as moral voices and potential agents of change.
politics.guardian.co.uk /arts/story/0,13319,1147307,00.html   (1696 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - David Hare (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
David Hare, English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biographies
Hare is prominent as a member of the British theatrical left.
The Breath of Life (2002) is a caustic study of two women in late middle age abandoned by the same man, roles originated in London by Dames Judi Dench and Maggie Smith.
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 Hare, David on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
David Hare receives the award for Best Adapted Screenplay for "The Hours" at the 55th Writers Guild Award at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, California, Saturday March 8, 2003.
The screenplay is by David Hare and based upon the novel by Michael Cunningham.
The screenplay is by David Hare and based upon the novel by
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 Acting Up - David Hare
The play itself is somewhat contentious: in it Hare writes about his encounter with contemporary Israel and Palestine, recreating the dozens of experiences he had and people he met on a visit there.
Hare is a major figure in the theatre world (and he had a blockbuster year 1998-99, with four plays opening in New York).
While we sympathize with Hare -- coughing in a theatre (or concert) is unacceptably rude, anyone who does cough during a performance should be ejected from the theatre, chastised, and, preferably, flogged -- it nevertheless is not a very interesting subject to read a great deal about.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/hared/actingup.htm   (1145 words)

  
 David Hare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
New plays by Sir Tom Stoppard and Sir David Hare, and the acting skills of Harold Pinter, are to form the highlights of the Royal Court Theatre's 50th...
But if the Tories want to be seen as a serious force, they need to look more like a David Hare play and less like Big Brother.
After a brilliant performance by David Walker earlier in the week, when he took fifth...
www.wikiverse.org /david-hare   (223 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: David Hare: Moral and Historical Perspectives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the last 30 years, David Hare has written 12 stage plays, seven screenplays and one opera, and has gained international attention as one of Britain's major contemporary playwrights.
Hare's prominence springs not only from the sheer volume of his work, but from his long career of chronicling the social and political fragmentation in postwar Britain.
This is the first work to demystify the implications of Hare's presentation of the moral and political health of the British nation.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0313297347   (190 words)

  
 London theatre tickets play The Secret Rapture by David Hare at the Lyric Theatre in London's West End - ticket buying ...
"...Hare has written better about the resilience of individual virtue in a corrupt society, notably in Skylight and Racing Demon, but The Secret Rapture is his most direct treatment of the subject.
Two sisters, the virtuous Isobel and the pragmatic Marion, are left with a problem on the death of their father: what to do with their boozy stepmother...
But, while Hare's play captures superbly the spirit of the 80s, it leaves you unsure whether Isobel is a priggish pain or a symbol of transcendent virtue." The Guardian
www.albemarle-london.com /secretrapture.html   (535 words)

  
 David Hare ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
John Wootton, The Hare and Many Friends, plate for Fable L on page 190 in the book Fables by Mr.
Isaac Cruikshank, Hare Hunting, pl. 33 opposite page 89 in the book Eccentric Excursions or Literary and Pictorial Sketches of Countenance, Character,and Country in Different Parts of England and South Wales by G. Woodward(London: R. Kirby, [ca.
David Hare - Expertise in commissioning, delivering and captaining fine mega yachts with emphasis on global...
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