David 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 Natio
Do you want to be happier? Find inner calm? Enjoy a rich and rewarding life? Here's how...The Buddha in Me, the Buddha in You combines the tried-and-tested wisdom of Nichiren Buddhism with the best of
One of the best-known playwrights of our time delivers an astonishing debut: a vibrant and affecting account of becoming a writer amid the enormous flux of postwar England. In his customarily dazzling
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. This book presents the consequenc
On 15 September 2008, capitalism came to a grinding halt. As sub-prime mortgages and toxic securities continued to dominate the headlines well into 2009, this spring the National Theatre asked David H
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. BERLINFor his whole adult life, David Hare has been visiti
Now nominated for five Academy AwardsAr including Best Adapted Screenplay and based on the award-winning and New York Times bestselling novel by Bernhard Schlink, legendary playwright and screenwrite
This is a new collection of some of David Hare's finest work, including Skylight (Winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, 1996), Amy's View, The Judas Kiss and My Zinc Bed.
Stuff Happens premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2004 and has subsequently been performed around the world. This play is about the extraordinary process leading up to the invasion of Iraq.
"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, follow
The Hours is David Hare's screen adaptation of Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. In extraordinary and ingenious ways, the film shows how a single day - and the novel Mrs Dalloway - in
From his early days as a playwright, David Hare has moved deliberately between stage, film and television, over the years building up a repertoire of work, most of which seeks to capture the changing
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 st
A darkly comic look at love and addiction by the author of Amy's ViewWhen struggling poet, reformed alcoholic, and devout Alcoholics Anonymous adherent Paul Peplow interviews the wildly successful, re
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 fifty-one. When his success at London's austere Ro
Schnitzler described Reigen, his loose series of sexual sketches, as 'completely unprintable'. Using as much imaginative freedom in his turn as Ophuls did fifty years ago, and with just two actors pla
David Hare has established a unique reputation for plays that are at once personal and political, deeply serious and incredibly funny. He is the author of seventeen plays, many of which have been pre
Introduced by the author, this second volume contains work from the seventies and eighties which confirmed David Hare as 'one of the few major playwrights in our language' (New York Post). Introduced
Skylight premiered at the National Theatre in 1995 and then went on to become one of the most internationally successful plays of recent years.This is the definitive edition of Skylight. Skylight prem
