CCCB HIGHLIGHTS - Week of 5 to 12 November Nov 7, 2009
Thursday 12 November, at 7 p.m.DRAMATISED READING: Berlin/Wall by David Hare. Director: Carlota Subir;s. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Recession stokes fire for writers, audiences alike Sep 23, 2009
One of Britain's leading playwrights, David Hare, is tackling the world of toxic securities and subprime mortgages in his new play at the National Theatre in London. Author Sebastian Faulks has a new best-seller about a swashbuckling hedge fund trader. (Business Report, South Africa)
Hilton Als: Daniel Goldfarb on a postwar revenge plot. Sep 21, 2009
But, under the direction of Leigh Silverman, she overplays the subtext of Anika s craven self-interest and hopped-up activism she s a more vulgar Susan Traherne, from David Hare s 1978 drama Plenty, all balls-to-the-wall bravado and exaggerated political passion. In any case, what is Jascha doing in a little hotel room in Paris with this live wire of a woman. (New Yorker)
A futile circle game in ‘The Blue Room’ Sep 15, 2009
WELLFLEET - The Blue Room by celebrated British playwright David Hare consists of a centennial reworking of Arthur Schnitzler s scandalous 1897 script about a mathematical progression of serial couplings (A plus B, B plus C, et cetera) ... THE BLUE ROOM Play by David Hare, freely adapted from Arthur. (Boston Globe)
Knife to the dark heart of politics Aug 28, 2009
David Hare talks to David Marr about power and its abuses, and why Neil Armfield is a true artist. David Hare ''You pay a price for moral compromise ... What I wanted to do was portray an ambience of obscene self confidence which New Labour radiated for so many years," says David Hare of his new play Gethsemane. That spin doctors' "new" was dropped from the brand name years ago, but Hare deploys it with menacing relish as he flays Tony Blair's government. "A lot of people are driven absolutely... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
‘The Breath of Life’ at Gloucester Stage Jul 30, 2009
GLOUCESTER - Playwright David Hare loves to explore the intersection of the political and the personal, whether it s in the documentary-style Stuff Happens or the fictional Plenty. In Gloucester Stage Company s production of The Breath of Life, which boasts the star power of award-winning actors Nancy E. Carroll and Paula Plum, that intersection never really happens, however. (Boston Globe)
Critic's picks - theater May 17, 2009
The play, "The Breath of Life," is David Hare in small domestic mode, not national pundit style; the performers, Nancy E. Carroll and Paula Plum, are likely to make the evening worth the drive. July 23-Aug. (Boston Globe)
'Angrier work' Apr 20, 2009
British playwright Sir David Hare has followed a self-performed monologue about the Berlin Wall with another about Israel's West Bank barrier. Sir David is best known for plays like Plenty, Skylight and Racing Demon. (BBC News -- UK)
Timely truths from Galileo Apr 2, 2009
The Underground Railway Theater will be using a David Hare translation of yet a third, written in the 1950s, when it stages the Brecht play in collaboration with MIT, beginning April 10 at the Central Square Theater. What comes across in any version is the Church's antipathy toward reason and its authoritarian crackdown on Galileo. (Boston Globe)
Storyteller found his voice on stage Mar 21, 2009
Shaped by his upbringing in a Jewish immigrant family, which brought an outsider perspective, the director was finding his distinctive voice in a lively, politically engaged decade when writers such as John Osborne, Howard Brenton, David Hare, Tom Stoppard and Caryl Churchill were being daring and ambitious. "When I started out I was 22 and there was a general climate of experimentation and people challenging the status quo," he says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Elephants out, wise owls in Mar 10, 2009
Last week I stated incorrectly that David Hare was involved in writing the screenplay for Frost/Nixon. On December 30 the reference should have been to Jane Caro, not Sue Cato. (The Age, Australia -- Opinion)
Family dynamics snarl 'Secret Rapture' Mar 6, 2009
Rachael Warren (standing) and Anne Scurria give strong performances in David Hare's play ... PROVIDENCE - It's easy to read "The Secret Rapture," David Hare's 1988 play of familial strife, as a commentary on Margaret Thatcher's Britain - and, by extension, on any society in which greed and sanctimony triumph over compassion and good will ... THE SECRET RAPTURE Play by David Hare. (Boston Globe)
The Reader under fire Feb 16, 2009
The attacks could also have consequences for the film's director, Stephen Daldry, and writer, the playwright David Hare, both of whom also have Oscar nominations. Telegraph, London. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Winslet Oscar in doubt as historians see red Feb 16, 2009
The attacks on The Reader could also have serious consequences for the film's British director, Stephen Daldry, and screenwriter, the playwright David Hare, both of whom also have Oscar nominations. Daldry was heckled at a recent screening, also attended by the film's Jewish producer Harvey Weinstein, by a man disgusted that frequent shots of a nude Winslet as she seduces the boy who teaches her to read are used to evoke sympathy for her unrepentant character. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The banker bash (it's a Fleet Street smash) Feb 14, 2009
The level of schadenfreude is astonishing maybe it's time for the Germans to coin a new word that means, "I dance on your pauper's grave and buy your repossessed BMW." David Hare, the playwright, was asked in an interview last week what he liked about living in Hampstead, a pretty but stultifyingly earnest part of north London: "It's delicious watching American bankers go broke," he replied. Well, it's not the American bankers who ran riot through London's best restaurants for the past decade,... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
'It's a simplistic idea that only monsters can commit monstrouscrimes.' Feb 8, 2009
"Stephen Daldry [the director] and [playwright and scriptwriter] David Hare . . . have translated a lot of the inner monologue of the book into scenes, and situations, and conversations," he says. "They have given it a different ending, which it had to have unless you used inner monologue, which is a problematic thing to do in cinema. I really admire what they have done.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Period films: Cruise,Mortensengo backto WWII Feb 7, 2009
Director Daldry and writer David Hare are the team that brought us The Hours and Winslet could face herself in the best actress Oscar category. This is the movie that the Weinstein Company for. (MSNBC -- Movies)
