David Hare

David Hare, "Britain's leading contemporary playwright," has established a unique reputation for plays that are at once personal and political, deeply serious and incredibly funny (The Times). He is the author of seventeen plays, many of which have been presented on Broadway. Included in this collection are Fanshen; A Map of the World; Saigon: Year of the Cat; The Bay at Nice; and The Secret Rapture. Of the title play, Frank Rich of The New York Times...

Arthur Schnitzler described Reigen, his loose series of sexual sketches, as "completely unprintable," and indeed, its premiere in 1921 spurred an obscenity suit. It was only when Max Ophüls made his famous film in 1950 that the work became better known as La Ronde. Now David Hare has reset these circular scenes of love and betrayal in the present day, with a cast of two actors playing a succession of characters whose sexual lives enmesh like a daisy...

Drama counterpointing experiences of English-woman helping the French Resistance during World War II with her life in the following twenty years. Music, 12 scenes, 9 men, 5 women, 4 interiors, 2 exteriors.

These two plays were written to be performed on the same evening. "The Bay at Nice" is set in Leningrad, 1956. It revolves around attempts to authenticate a suspect painting. "Wrecked Eggs" is set by the Hudson River in the present day. The lives of three Americans are slipping wildly out of control.

"Peter Laurence is a political outsider who is very popular with the people. Fresh from a successful libel case against a journalist printing stories alleging corruption, he's a man on the rise. But Peter has plenty of skeletons in his closet. And soon he discovers another - an illegitimate daughter serving a prison sentence. It's a secret that could ruin him. And one, apparently, that his Prime Minister already knows." --

An elderly antiquarian bookseller has just died at his home in the country. His two daughters come to attend to things. Isobel, who has been nursing him, is a partner in a small design studio. Marion is in politics-- already a junior minister. It is Marion's profession to provide answers, and to back those who offer solutions, but not all human situations yield to a professional approach-- least of all when they involve their junior step-mother Katherine,...

"After a long period of turmoil, the Leader's office has imposed an uneasy period of calm on the Labour Party. But the leader, George Jones, knows he has only one chance of power." "The third part of a trilogy of plays about British institutions, The Absence of War offers an original look at the way modern politicians think and act, as well as a meditation on the classic problems of leadership." "Alongside the first two parts of the trilogy, Racing...