David Hare: Plays 1: Slag, Teeth 'n' Smiles, Knuckle, Licking Hitler, Plenty (Contemporary Classics) - Softcover

Hare, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571177417 ISBN 13: 9780571177417

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996

Synopsis

Plays One:
Slag
Teeth 'n' Smiles
Knuckle
Licking Hitler
Plenty

Introduced by the author, this first volume of David Hare's plays contains his work from the seventies, including the landmark play of that decade, Plenty, charting the development of 'one of the great post-war British playwrights' (Independent on Sunday).

About this title

About the Author:

David Hare was born in Sussex, England in 1947. His first play, Slag, was produced in 1970. His other works include Plenty (1978), A Map of the World (1983), and Pravda (1985). A founder of the Portable Theatre and the Joint Stock, he became resident dramatist and literary manager of the Royal Court Theatre, London (1967–71), and at the Nottingham Playhouse (1973). Until recently, Hare served as director of the National Theatre, London. In 1982, Hare founded a film company, Greenpoint Films. He has written several screenplays including Plenty (1985), Weatherby (1985), Strapless (1989), and Damage (1992). Several of his best-known plays, The Secret Rapture, Racing Demon, Skylight, The Judas Kiss, Via Dolorosa and Amy's View have been presented on Broadway.

Review:

“An embattled contemporary morality play full of sardonic fun and spiky indignation...What an enviable debut: funny, intelligent and briskly honest.” ―Sunday Times on Slag

“The writing is bright with aggression...a flintily intelligent play.” ―The Times on Teeth 'n' Smiles

“I beg all lovers of the theatre, and all those concerned for its future, to see Knuckle.” ―Sunday Telegraph on Knuckle

“Beginning with a middle-class young woman's unceremonious introduction to specialized war work, it develops with a devastating economy of means into a dramatization of the unarguable logic of deception...elegant, spare and as lucid as crystal.” ―Observer on Licking Hitler

“Brilliant...it deepens with every viewing.” ―Mel Gussow, New York Times on Plenty

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0571177417
• ISBN 13: 9780571177417
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 224