Obedience, Struggle and Revolt - Lectures on Theatre

Informationen zum Autor David Hare has written over thirty stage plays and thirty screenplays for film and television. The plays include Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton), The Secret Rapture, Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, The Blue Room, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, The Absence of War, The Judas Kiss, The Red Barn, The Moderate Soprano, I'm Not Running and Beat the Devil. For cinema, he has written The Hours, The Reader, Damage, Denial, Wetherby and The White Crow among others, while his television films include Licking Hitler , the Worricker Trilogy, Collateral and Roadkill . In a millennial poll of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, five of the top hundred were his. Zusammenfassung What 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? This work aims to address these and other questions in occasional lectures given both in Britain and abroad.

Product details

• Authors: David Hare, Hare David
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.01.2007
• EAN: 9780571232192
• ISBN: 978-0-571-23219-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Mixed anthologies; Theatre Studies, Anthologies: general, British Theatre; Broadway; Politics; Society