The Independent - London, January 31st, 2001
WHEN DAVID Hare's The Secret Rapture was staged at the National in 1988, it was hailed as a brilliant depiction of the way that Thatcherism corrupted human relationships, and as a prime example of its author's gift for yoking the personal and the political. The idea of goodness was about as fashionable at the time as beer-and- sandwich sessions at No 10 for trade-union leaders. Hare bucked the trend by making virtue and its operations a central feature of his play. But does it survive the context in which it was first received?
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