Born in Sussex, Hare was educated at Lancing College and at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he earned an honors M.A. in English. There he began directing plays and formed a friendship with Tony Bicât, with whom, after Cambridge, he collaborated on a play and formed the Portable Theatre Company, a peripatetic experimental group which performed wherever it could find a house and an audience. Hare wrote his first three plays for the Portable Theatre and established it as one of the forces in England's fringe theater movement, a loose collection of small semiprofessional groups that might be likened to New York's Off-Off-Broadway. He served as a Portable Theatre director from its founding in 1968 until 1971 while simultaneously serving as literary manager of the Royal Court Theatre from 1969 to 1970 and as Royal Court resident dramatist from 1970 to 1971.
Hare is a self-declared political playwright who also writes about romantic love. His politics are decidedly left wing, but Hare's plays are not crudely polemical. His concern is to hold up for examination the history of postwar England, which his plays suggest is dominated by lies, corruption, and the inability to change toward a more rational mode of politics.
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