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Skylight by David Hare
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88'There are times in the theatre when you suddenly find yourself in the grip of silence. There is no fidgeting or coughing, no shifting about in seats: the audience's attention is so tense it is... -
The Hours by David Hare
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47The Hours is David Hare's screen adaptation of Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. In Richmond, England in 1923, Virginia Woolf is setting out to write the first words of her new book... -
Murmuring Judges by David Hare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A young lawyer's involvement in her first case leads her through a criminal justice system - police, courts and prisons - which is cracking at the seams.Murmuring Judges is the second play in David... -
The Permanent Way by David Hare
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99In 1991, before an election they did not expect to win, the Conservative government made a fateful decision to privatize the railways. As a result, the taxpayer subsidizes rail more lavishly then... -
The Absence of War by David Hare
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The Absence of War offers a meditation on the classic problems of leadership, and is the third part of a critically acclaimed trilogy of plays (Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges) about British... -
Berlin/Wall by David Hare
RRP: £5.00Booksplease Price: £4.12Berlin/WallIn two contrasted readings for the stage, David Hare visits a place where a famous wall has come down; then another where a wall is going up.BerlinFor his whole adult life, David Hare has... -
Stuff Happens by David Hare
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Stuff happens... And it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.'The famous response of American Secretary of Defense Donald... -
Amy's View by David Hare
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95It is 1979. Esme Allen is a well-known West End actress at just the moment when the West End is ceasing to offer actors a regular way of life. The visit of her young daughter, Amy, with a new... -
Via Dolorosa by David Hare
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'My whole life, it's been assumed, Western civilisation is an old bitch gone in the teeth. And so people say, go to Israel. Because in Israel at least people are fighting. In Israel, they're fighting... -
The Blue Room by David Hare
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Schnitzler described Reigen, his loose series of sexual sketches, as 'completely unprintable'. The company that first presented them was prosecuted for obscenity in 1921. It was only when Max Ophuls... -
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Asking Around: Background to the David Hare Trilogy by David Hare 9780571170630 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £1.87David Hare's trilogy of plays - Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges, The Absence of War - first presented at the National Theatre, London, in 1993, examines the crises facing three great British... -
The Judas Kiss by David Hare 9780571297542
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Oscar Wilde's philosophy leads him on a path to destruction. The Judas Kiss describes two pivotal moments: the day Wilde decides to stay in England and face imprisonment, and the night when the lover... -
The Vertical Hour David Hare 9780571233526
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Nadia Blye is a young American war reporter turned academic who teaches Political Studies at Yale. A brief holiday with her boyfriend brings her into contact with a kind of Englishman whose culture... -
Obedience, Struggle and Revolt by David Hare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £3.41What is a political playwright? Does theatre have any direct effect on society? Why choose to work in a medium which speaks to so few? Is theatre itself facing oblivion? All frequent questions... -
Grace Pervades David Hare 9780571393619
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95People arguing, that isn't theatre. People making points. And what's more, you and I don't belong in drawing rooms. Drawing rooms can't contain us. We need courts and palaces and cathedrals. There's... -
Racing Demon by David Hare 9780571161065
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95How do you fight without hate?Racing Demon reveals the struggle of four clergymen to make sense of their mission. David Hare's play opened at the National Theatre, London, in 1990 to universal... -
David Hare Plays 3: Skylight; Amy's View; The Judas Kiss; My Zinc Bed by David Hare
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.96This 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.David Hare... -
David Hare Plays 1: Slag; Teeth 'n' Smiles; Knuckle; Licking Hitler; Plenty by David Hare
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.99This first volume of David Hare's plays contains his work from the 1970s, including his landmark play of that decade, Plenty, charting the development of 'one of the great post-war British... -
David Hare Plays 2: Fanshen; A Map of the World; Saigon; The Bay at Nice; The Secret Rapture by David Hare
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.37This second volume of plays by David Hare contains work from the 1970s and 1980s which confirmed him as one of the major contemporary playwrights in the English language. It includes Fanshen, his... -
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Skylight by David Hare 9780571321131 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.46'There are times in the theatre when you suddenly find yourself in the grip of silence. There is no fidgeting or coughing, no shifting about in seats: the audience's attention is so tense it is... -
Beat the Devil: A Covid Monologue by David Hare
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39Covid-19 seems to be a sort of dirty bomb, thrown into the body to cause havoc.On the same day that the UK government finally made the first of two decisive interventions that led to a conspicuously... -
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The Vertical Hour by David Hare 9780571233526 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Nadia Blye is a young American war reporter turned academic who teaches Political Studies at Yale. A brief holiday with her boyfriend brings her into contact with a kind of Englishman whose culture... -
![Acting Up by David Hare 9780571201358 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9655560/10672280/9780571201358__06149.1781279127.jpg?c=1 "Acting Up by David Hare 9780571201358 [USED COPY]")
Acting Up by David Hare 9780571201358 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.16In 1997 the 50-year-old playwright David Hare decided to visit the 50-year-old state of Israel and write a play - Via Dolorosa - about the conflict. He then chose to become the actor of his own play... -
South Downs and Mere Fact, Mere Fiction by David Hare
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.951962: A public school on the South Downs.John Blakemore is a solitary boy who finds it impossible either to understand or adapt to the ways of the school. His adolescent earnestness put off teacher... -
The Buddha in Me, The Buddha in You: A Handbook for Happiness by David Hare
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07Do 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... -
The Power of Yes: A Dramatist Seeks to Understand the Financial Crisis by David Hare 9780571254682
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95On 15 September 2008, capitalism came to a grinding halt. As sub-prime mortgages and toxic securities continued to dominate the headlines well into 2009, the National Theatre asked David Hare to... -
State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 by Michael Billington 9780571210497
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 looks at post-war Britain from a theatrical perspective. It examines the constant interplay between theatre and society from the resurgent optimism of... -
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State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 by Michael Billington 9780571210343 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.42State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 looks at post-war Britain from a theatrical perspective. It examines the constant interplay between theatre and society from the resurgent optimism of... -
Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery David Harewood 9781529064131
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25One of the Observer's Best Memoirs of the Year and The Times Best Film and Theatre Books of the Year.'As a Black British man I believe it is vital that I tell this story. It may be just one account... -
Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery by David Harewood 9781529064179
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.36A Book of the Year in The Observer and The Times and winner of the Visionary Honours Award.'David Harewood writes with rare honesty and fearless self-analysis about his experiences of racism and what... -
Rising to the Surface: 'Moving and honest' OBSERVER by Lenny Henry 9780571368792
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'The king of character comedy.' Good Housekeeping'A lynchpin of British comedy.' Alan MooreThe nation's favourite comedian opens up about two extraordinary decades at the heart of British comedy... -
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The Silent Twins by Marjorie Wallace 9780099586418 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £6.60The astounding true story behind the major new motion picture starring Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance, with a new epilogue from the author'A compelling and tragic story' Mail on Sunday... -
The Silent Twins by Marjorie Wallace
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46The astounding true story behind the major new motion picture starring Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance, with a new epilogue from the author'A compelling and tragic story' Mail on Sunday... -
The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca 9780571227570
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Finished just two months before the author's murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco's supporters, The House of Bernarda Alba is now accepted as Lorca's great masterpiece of love and loathing... -
The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern by Peter Ackroyd 9781789148398
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative skill, the genesis of acting - deriving from the Church... -
Sin: By the author of DAMAGE, inspiration for the Netflix series OBSESSION Josephine Hart 9781844087174
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Sin might be the spearhead of a new fictional genre' ANTHONY QUINN, INDEPENDENT 'The reader looks on with mingled shock and fascination ' NEW YORK TIMES'Shocking . . . unrelenting in its intensity ... -
Damage by Josephine Hart
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Now filmed as Obsession on Netflix - starring Richard Armitage and Charlie MurphyThe New York Times bestselling masterpiece - a daring look at the dangers of obsession and the depth of its shattering... -
Break a Leg: A memoir, manifesto and celebration of amateur theatre by Jenny Landreth
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12'With spot-on injections of humour and a frequently raised sardonic eyebrow, joy and warmth shine from this fascinating and funny book' Jo BrandA joyful celebration of amateur theatreFrom the Mystery... -
Both Not Half: 'Few people write about identity with such fluency and sincerity' SATHNAM SANGHERA by Jassa Ahluwalia 9781788708319
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £9.42'Full of warmth, humour, optimism and sometimes painful honesty' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'Anyone who's ever struggled to make sense of who they are and where they belong should read this book' NADIA... -
Raceless: 'A really engaging memoir about identity, race, family and secrets' GUARDIAN Georgina Lawton 9780751579376
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, EVENING STANDARD AND COSMOPOLITAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'A jaw-dropping story, told deftly . . . a gripping, thought-provoking book' Sunday Times'A really engaging memoir about...