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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... -
Asking Around: Background to the David Hare Trilogy by David Hare 9780571170630
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.60David 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... -
Plenty by David Hare
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01After opening to sometimes bewildered reviews at the National Theatre in 1978, David Hare's wildly ambitious play Plenty established itself as a landmark modern classic in its 1982 New York... -
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... -
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... -
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 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... -
Pravda by David Hare 9781472574770
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.99The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart, and democracy itself cannot function. Pravda (which means "truth") is a satire written at the... -
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... -
The Permanent Way by David Hare
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.48In 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 Moderate Soprano by David Hare
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95I want to give my country a model of perfection. My country needs cheering up. I'm the man to do it.A man of great passions, John Christie wooed his opera singer wife with a determination befitting a... -
I'm Not Running by David Hare
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Should I run? This is the question Pauline Gibson is asking herself. She has spent her adult life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a campaign for local health provision. When she crosses paths... -
Fanshen by David Hare 9780573017032
Booksplease Price: £12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573017032Author David HareFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel... -
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... -
Uncle Vanya by David Hare
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Russia, late summer at the close of the nineteenth century. Vanya and his niece Sonya have worked for years to manage the country estate. Into this ordered and regular household come two new... -
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... -
Skylight by David Hare 9780573018763
Booksplease Price: £12.27Kyra is surprised to see the son of her former lover at her apartment in a London slum. He hopes she will reconcile with his distraught, now widowed, father. Tom, a restless, self-made restaurant and... -
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... -
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: £3.18What 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... -
The Secret Rapture by David Hare 9780573114083
Booksplease Price: £12.27In David Hare's "greatest play" (City Limits) two sisters, Isobel, a serene and good person, and Marion, an ambitious Tory Junior Minister, gather at the home of their late father for his... -
The Judas Kiss by David Hare 9780802135728
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.58Oscar Wilde's relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas has inspired contemporary writers for decades. In his account of love tested to destruction, David Hare presents his powerful interpretation of... -
Straight Line Crazy by David Hare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses was the most powerful man in New York. Though never elected to office, he manipulated those who were through a mix of guile, charm and intimidation... -
The Great Lighthouses of Ireland by David Hare
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £22.45The Great Lighthouses of Ireland is a collection of striking images and fascinating stories about the lighthouses around Ireland's coast and the extraordinary men and women who lived and worked in... -
The Vertical Hour by David Hare 9780573651304
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573651304Author David HareFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel... -
Acting Up by David Hare 9780571201358
Booksplease Price: £15.18In 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... -
The Judas Kiss by David Hare 9780571297542
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.69Oscar 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... -
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by David Hare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.14It's not just that rich people don't know what they've got. They don't even know what they throw away. India is beginning to prosper. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport is an... -
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 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 3: Skylight; Amy's View; The Judas Kiss; My Zinc Bed by David Hare
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.91This 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 2: Fanshen; A Map of the World; Saigon; The Bay at Nice; The Secret Rapture by David Hare
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.57This 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... -
Obedience, Struggle and Revolt by David Hare 9780374538132
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £12.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538132Author David HareFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Strauss &... -
The Vertical Hour by Sir David Hare 9780865479654
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £10.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865479654Author Sir David HareFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Farrar, Strauss &... -
The Plays of David Hare by Carol Homden 9780521417150
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.72This 1995 book was the first full-length survey of one of the leading playwrights of the post-war generation. Through his career as playwright, filmmaker, and director, David Hare has been at the... -
We Travelled: Essays and Poems by David Hare
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £6.95'A writing career which is the most consistently adventurous of any British dramatist.' ObserverRecording dizzying changes in culture and politics, this is a powerful compilation of prose and poetry... -
The Plays of David Hare by Carol Homden 9780521427180
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.67This 1995 book was the first full-length survey of one of the leading playwrights of the post-war generation. Through his career as playwright, filmmaker, and director, David Hare has been at the... -
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... -
Racing Demon: A Play by David Hare 9780573113697
Booksplease Price: £12.27Forming the first part of the David Hare Trilogy (which also comprises of Murmuring Judges and The Absence of War) Racing Demon focuses on the Church of England. A disparate body, the Church now...