David Hare Summary

David Hare stands as a leader in the generation of young British dramatists who came to the fore in the 1970s, a group that includes David Edgar, Trevor Griffiths, Steven Poliakoff, and the so-called ... Read more

In the following unfavorable review of Paris by Night, Moore discusses Hare's portrayal of right-wing women and sexual difference. Democracy works in mysterious ways. So mysterious in fact that... Read more

In the following excerpt, Morrone offers an unfavorable assessment of Strapless, finding fault with the film's casting and characterizations. Four films concerning women that were presented at ... Read more

In the following review, Kennedy cites Hare's Racing Demon as original for its focus on the search for vocation in a vacuous England. Jesus is back. Thanks to the wholesale revival of evangelic... Read more

In the following review, Kauffmann argues that Hare's dramatic works have taken a change for the worse, especially as evident in Strapless. David Hare is going to the bad, which in his case mea... Read more

In the following review, Wu admires the traditional dramatic ideas of Writing Left-Handed. David Hare’s introduction to this collection of prose pieces written since 1978 is characteristically ... Read more

In the following excerpt, Lavender compares the work of Arthur Miller and Hare, and offers praise for the Greek influence apparent in Murmuring Judges. The love affair between Arthur Miller and Britai... Read more

In the following review, Milne views The Absence of War as less interesting than the earlier two plays in Hare's trilogy. Once upon a time, there was a Labour leader who lost. He had one chance... Read more

In the following essay, Cohn examines the portrayal of women in Hare's dramas and films, noting the strengths and weaknesses of the female characters in light of harsh feminist criticism of Har... Read more

In the following review, King offers a positive evaluation of Hare's trilogy—Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges, and The Absence of War. Throughout his prolific career as author of stage, sc... Read more

In the following review, Jays describes Skylight as “obvious and inconsistent.” I love my love with an S, because it is secret. It feeds on silence and its name is Skylight. What do you ... Read more

In the following review, Simon praises the direction, writing, and acting in Racing Demon. Lincoln Center Theater finally has a winner in Racing Demon. If the late, unlamented Sacrilege showed us how ... Read more

In the following review, Lahr offers a tempered evaluation of Skylight, which he views as an unsatisfying compromise between “conscience and comfort.” David Hare has been one of the most... Read more

In the following review, Kanfer offers an adverse appraisal of Skylight, finding fault in the play's one-sided sociopolitical argument. David Hare’s villain never varies. Different guise... Read more

In the following review, Reynolds praises Hare's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play Ivanov. The 1887 Moscow premiere of Ivanov, the first full-length play Chekhov completed, was famously... Read more

In the following review, Lahr praises Amy's View. This summer, the English have seen two well-managed changings of the guard: the British withdrawal from Hong Kong and Sir Richard Eyre’s... Read more

In the following review, Lahr offers a commendatory estimation of Hare's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play Ivanov. As the lights come up on David Hare’s crisp adaptation of Ivano... Read more

In the following excerpt, Hornby offers a detrimental estimation of The Judas Kiss. The plays and film about Oscar Wilde that have come out lately all stress his role as gay martyr. Since he got two y... Read more

In the following review of Via Dolorosa, Newey finds Hare's stage persona as writer, actor, and moralist confusing. Early in his new play about Israel, Sir David Hare quotes a remark by his fri... Read more

In the following excerpt, Lahr assesses Hare's The Blue Room as unsufferable and dispassionate. As the world knows, the film star Nicole Kidman is in a play—David Hare’s “f... Read more

In the following review, Duguid offers an unsatisfactory appraisal of Plenty. David Hare was born in 1947, and grew up with films and comics about the Second World War. In 1978, when he came to write ... Read more