The Vertical Hour - Softcover

David Hare

Softcover

ISBN 10: 057123352X ISBN 13: 9780571233526

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2008

Synopsis

The Vertical Hour by David Hare is a new play from one of Britain's most significant contemporary playwrights.
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Nadia Blye is a young American war reporter turned academic who teaches Political Studies at Yale. A brief holiday with her boyfriend brings her into contact with a kind of Englishman whose culture and background is a surprise and a challenge, both to her and to her relationship. For thirty five years, David Hare has written plays which catch the flavour of our times, the interconnection between our secret motives and our public politics. Now, at last, he writes about an American, seeking to illustrate how life has subtly changed for so many people in the West in the new century.

The Vertical Hour received its world premiere at the Music Box Theater, Broadway, on November 30, 2006, and received its UK premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 17 January 2008.

About this title

About the Author

David Hare is a playwright and filmmaker. His stage plays include Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton) Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, South Downs, The Absence of War and The Judas Kiss. His films for cinema and television include Wetherby, The Hours, Damage, The Reader and the Worricker trilogy: Page Eight, Turks & Caicos and Salting the Battlefield. He has written English adaptations of plays by Pirandello, Chekhov, Brecht, Schnitzler, Lorca, Gorky and Ibsen. For fifteen years he was an Associate Director of the National Theatre.

Review

“Hare's smart . . . new drama . . . [is] intellectually bracing and, at times, emotionally resonant.” ―Julia M. Klein, The Chronicle of Higher Education

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 057123352X
• ISBN 13: 9780571233526
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128