David Hare
David Hare is the author of fourteen original plays and four adaptations for the National Theatre. His plays are Slag, The Great Exhibition, Brassneck (with Howard Brenton), Knuckle, Teeth ’n’ Smiles, Fanshen (NT), Plenty (NT), A Map of the World (NT), Pravda (with Howard Brenton; NT), The Bay at Nice (NT), The Secret Rapture (NT), Racing Demon (NT), Murmuring Judges (NT), The Absence of War (NT), Skylight (NT), Amy’s View (NT), The Judas Kiss, The Blue Room (from Schnitzler), Via Dolorosa, My Zinc Bed, The Breath of Life, The Permanent Way (NT), Stuff Happens (NT), and The Vertical Hour. Adaptations: The Rules of the Game by Pirandello (NT); The Life of Galileo (NT) and Mother Courage and Her Children (NT) by Brecht; Ivanov and Platonov by Chekhov; The House of Bernarda Alba (NT) by Lorca; and Enemies by Gorky. TV: Licking Hitler, Dreams of Leaving, Saigon: Year of the Cat, Heading Home, The Absence of War, Via Dolorosa, and My Zinc Bed. Films: Wetherby, Plenty, Paris by Night, Strapless, The Secret Rapture, Damage, The Hours and (soon to be released) The Reader
