David Hare (playwright)
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Margaret Matheson
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Sir David Rippon Hare (born 5 June 1947)
In the
In addition to his two Academy Award nominations, Hare has received three
Hare has been associate director of the National Theatre since 1984.
Early life
David Hare was born in
Career
Early work
Hare worked with the Portable Theatre Company from 1968 to 1971. His first play, Slag, was produced in 1970, the same year in which he married his first wife, Margaret Matheson; the couple had three children and divorced in 1980. He was Resident Dramatist at the Royal Court Theatre, London, from 1970 to 1971, and in 1973 became resident dramatist at the Nottingham Playhouse. He co-founded the Joint Stock Theatre Company with David Aukin and Max Stafford-Clark in 1975. Hare's play Plenty was produced at the National Theatre in 1978. Aside from films, he has also written teleplays such as, for the BBC, Licking Hitler (1978), and, for Thames Television, Saigon: Year of the Cat (1983).[8]
1980s
Hare founded a film company called Greenpoint Films in 1982, and among screenplays he has written are Plenty, Wetherby, Strapless, and Paris by Night. In 1983, his play A Map of the World was produced at the
In 1985, Hare wrote
1990s
In 1990, Hare wrote
In 1995, Hare's translation of Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht was produced in London.[8] In 1996, Hare wrote Skylight, a play about a woman who receives an unexpected visit from her former lover whose wife has recently died. Michael Gambon and Lia Williams starred in the original production, which received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play. The following year, the production transferred to the Broadway stage, where it was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play.[13]
In 1998, Hare wrote Amy's View, a play that deals with an emotional relationship between a mother and her daughter. The original production at the Royal National Theatre starred Judi Dench, Samantha Bond, and Ronald Pickup. Dench starred in the Broadway transfer, earning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play in 1999.[14]
2000s
In 2001, Hare wrote
In 2008, he adapted
2010s
Hare's 2011 play
In December 2011, it was announced that his monologue
In 2016, Hare wrote the screenplay for
2020s
In 2020, Hare contracted COVID-19, an experience reflected in his monologue Beat the Devil, with Ralph Fiennes in the starring role.[24]
In 2022, Hare wrote,
Archive
In 1993, Hare sold his archive to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. The archive consists of typescript drafts, notes, rehearsal scripts, schedules, production notes, correspondence, theatre programs, resumes, photographs, and published texts associated with Hare's plays, teleplays, screenplays, and essays, as well as foreign-language translations of Hare's works; works by other authors; personal correspondence; minutes of meetings; and Hare's English papers from Cambridge University.[27]
Personal life
He has been married to the French fashion designer Nicole Farhi since 1992.[28]
In 1993, Hare's best friend Sarah Matheson was diagnosed with
Works
Selected credits
Theatre
- Slag (1970)
- The Great Exhibition (1972)
- Brassneck (1973) (with Howard Brenton)
- Knuckle (1974)
- Fanshen (1975). Based on Fanshen (1966)
- Teeth 'n' Smiles(1975)
- Plenty (1978)
- A Map of the World (1982)
- Pravda (1985) (with Howard Brenton)
- The Bay at Nice, and Wrecked Eggs (1986)
- The Knife (1987) (with Nick Bicat and Tim Rose Price)[30]
- The Secret Rapture (1988)
- Racing Demon (1990)
- Murmuring Judges (1991)
- The Absence of War (1993)
- Skylight (1995)
- Amy's View (1997)
- Ivanov (1997; 2015) (adapted from Chekhov)
- The Blue Room (1998) (adapted from Schnitzler)
- The Judas Kiss (1998)
- Via Dolorosa (1998)
- My Zinc Bed (2000)
- Platonov (2001; 2015) (adapted from Chekhov)
- The Breath of Life (2002)
- The Permanent Way (2003)
- Stuff Happens (2004)
- The Vertical Hour (2006)
- Gethsemane (2008)[31]
- Berlin (2009)[32]
- Wall (2009)[33]
- The Power of Yes (2009)[34]
- South Downs (2011)
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers (2014)
- The Seagull (2015) (adapted from Chekhov)
- The Moderate Soprano (2015)
- The Red Barn (2016)
- I'm Not Running (2018)
- Beat the Devil (2020)
- Straight Line Crazy (2022)
Film
- Plenty (1985)
- Damage (1992)
- The Secret Rapture (1993)
- The Hours (2002)
- The Reader (2008)
- Denial (2016)
- Wall (2017)
- The White Crow (2018)
Television
- "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" (Lucasfilm, 1993) (directed the episode Paris, May 1919)
- Page Eight (BBC, 2011) (also directed)
- Turks & Caicos (BBC, 2014) (also directed)
- Salting the Battlefield (BBC, 2014) (also directed)
- Collateral(Netflix, 2018)
- Roadkill (BBC One, 2020)
- Beat the Devil (Showtime/Skyarts, 2021)
Awards and honours
For his work in theatre, he has received eight
Hare has received various award nominations for his film work, including two
He has also received various honours including knighthoods, degrees, and fellows. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1985. This gave him the Post Nominal Letters "FRSL" for Life.[36] He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Jesus College, Cambridge, in 2001.[37] He was knighted in the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours List "For services to the Theatre". This allows him to use the title Sir. He was awarded the Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) by the University of East Anglia in 2010.[38]
References
- ^ "Hastings Literary Festival". 1066 Country. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
- ^ Daldry, Tom (14 December 2018). "Sir David Hare at the National". Hastings Independent.
- ^ Faber and Faber, 2015.
- ^ The International Who's Who, 1991–1992, Europa Publishing, p. 660.
- ^ Boon, Richard, About Hare: The Playwright and the Work, Faber, 2003.
- ISBN 0-8240-2579-2, p. xix.
- ^ ADC Theatre, Cambridge Archives.
- ^ a b "Hare, David 1947-", Encyclopedia.com.
- ^ Rich, Frank (2 October 1985). "THEATER: 'A MAP OF THE WORLD,' BY DAVID HARE". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
- ^ "Pravda - Drama Online". www.dramaonlinelibrary.com.
- ^ "BBC - The National Theatre At 50: Pravda". Media Centre. BBC.
- ^ "David Hare", Contemporary Writers, British Council. Archived 1 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "The Tony Award Nominations". www.tonyawards.com. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
- ^ "Winners". www.tonyawards.com. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
- ^ ""The Reader" Nominated for Four Golden Globes – German Premiere at Berlinale 2009". Studio Babelsberg. 12 December 2008. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
- ^ "Adapted Screenplay in 2009 | Nominees". BAFTA. 2009.
- ^ Coveney, Michael (20 April 2012). "The unhappiest time of his life: David Hare on dramatising his school days". The Independent.
- ^ "Saturday Drama | South Downs". BBC Radio 4. 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
- ^ Vlessing, Etan (14 December 2011). "National Film Board of Canada to Animate Israel's West Bank Barrier For Theatrical Doc". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
- ^ Volmers, Eric (15 September 2017). "Cam Christiansen, David Hare and the NFB break down barriers with animated 'essay' Wall". Calgary Herald.
- ^ "The New School for Drama Names Sir David Hare Artist-In-Residence" (Press release). The New School. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
- ^ Assessments (2008) by Michael Billington, Richard Boon, Richard Eyre, Charles Spencer and Dominic Cavendish; [1]
- ^ C. Sullivan, "The Present: Hare and Shrinking Government Provision", in Literature in the Public Service: Sublime Bureaucracy (2013), ch. 4.
- ^ Akbar, Arifa (30 August 2020). "Beat the Devil review – righteous rage of David Hare's corona nightmare". The Observer. London. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
- ^ Gans, Andrew (23 March 2022). "Ralph Fiennes Leads World Premiere of Straight Line Crazy, Opening March 23 at London's The Bridge". Playbill. Archived from the original on 13 April 2022. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- ^ "Straight Line Crazy". The Shed. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
- ^ "David Hare: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center". norman.hrc.utexas.edu. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ^ Edemariam, Aida (18 September 2009). "Nicole Farhi: 'Go home alone? I can't'". The Guardian.
- ^ "Sir David Hare to broadcast the BBC Radio 4 Appeal for the MSA Trust". Multiple System Atrophy Trust. 18 December 2014.
- ISBN 9780571301249– via Google Books.
- ^ Thaxter, John (12 November 2008), "Gethsemane" review, The Stage.
- ^ Kellaway, Kate (15 February 2009). "Theatre review: Berlin, a reading by David Hare". The Guardian.
- ^ Billington, Michael (19 April 2009). "Theatre review: Wall / Royal Court, London". The Guardian.
- ^ "National Theatre : Productions : The Power of Yes". Archived from the original on 27 September 2009. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
- ^ "Berlinale: 1997 Juries". berlinale.de. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
- ^ "Sir David Hare". The Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ^ "Honorary and St Radegund Fellows". Jesus College, University of Cambridge. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ^ "Honorary Graduates University of East Anglia". The University of East Anglia. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
External links
- David Hare Papers and Additions to His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center
- David Hare at IMDb
- Sir David Hare at British Council: Literature
- David Hare at the Internet Broadway Database
- David Hare – contributor page at The New York Review of Books