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Sir David Hare (born 5 June 1947) is an English
English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....
 playwright
Playwright

A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
 and theatre and film director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
.

was born David Rippon in St Leonards-on-Sea
St Leonards-on-Sea

St Leonards-on-Sea is part of Hastings, East Sussex, England, lying immediately to the west of the centre. The original part of the settlement was laid out in the early 19th century as a new town: a place of elegant houses designed for the well-off; it also included a central public garden, a hotel, an archery, assembly rooms and a church....
, East Sussex
East Sussex

East Sussex is a Counties of England in South East England England. It is bordered by the counties of Kent, Surrey, Brighton and Hove and West Sussex, and to the south by the English Channel....
, the son of Agnes (née Gilmour) and Clifford Theodore Rippon, a sailor. He was educated at Lancing College
Lancing College

Lancing College is a co-educational England Independent school , founded in 1848 by Nathaniel Woodard, whose aim was to provide education based on sound principle and sound knowledge, firmly grounded in the Christian faith. Lancing was to be the first of a family of over 30 schools founded by Woodard ....
 and at Jesus College, Cambridge
Jesus College, Cambridge

Jesus College in the University of Cambridge was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine nunnery by John Alcock , then Bishop of Ely. It has been traditionally believed that the nunnery was turned into a college because the nunnery had gained a reputation for promiscuity....
. His first play, Slag, was produced in 1970.

Hare worked with the Portable Theatre Company
Portable Theatre Company

The Portable Theatre Company were a group of thespians in the late '60s and early '70s who meant to open the eyes of the British people to what was wrong in their contemporary world....
 from 1968 - 1971. Hare was Resident Dramatist at the Royal Court Theatre
Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre is a West End Theatre#London's non-commercial theatres theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea....
, London, from 1970-1971, and in 1973 became resident dramatist at the Nottingham Playhouse
Nottingham Playhouse

The Nottingham Playhouse is a theatre in Nottingham, England. It was first established as a repertory theatre in the 1950s when it operated from a former cinema....
, a major provincial theatre.






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Sir David Hare (born 5 June 1947) is an English
English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....
 playwright
Playwright

A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
 and theatre and film director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
.

Biography

Hare was born David Rippon in St Leonards-on-Sea
St Leonards-on-Sea

St Leonards-on-Sea is part of Hastings, East Sussex, England, lying immediately to the west of the centre. The original part of the settlement was laid out in the early 19th century as a new town: a place of elegant houses designed for the well-off; it also included a central public garden, a hotel, an archery, assembly rooms and a church....
, East Sussex
East Sussex

East Sussex is a Counties of England in South East England England. It is bordered by the counties of Kent, Surrey, Brighton and Hove and West Sussex, and to the south by the English Channel....
, the son of Agnes (née Gilmour) and Clifford Theodore Rippon, a sailor. He was educated at Lancing College
Lancing College

Lancing College is a co-educational England Independent school , founded in 1848 by Nathaniel Woodard, whose aim was to provide education based on sound principle and sound knowledge, firmly grounded in the Christian faith. Lancing was to be the first of a family of over 30 schools founded by Woodard ....
 and at Jesus College, Cambridge
Jesus College, Cambridge

Jesus College in the University of Cambridge was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine nunnery by John Alcock , then Bishop of Ely. It has been traditionally believed that the nunnery was turned into a college because the nunnery had gained a reputation for promiscuity....
. His first play, Slag, was produced in 1970.

Hare worked with the Portable Theatre Company
Portable Theatre Company

The Portable Theatre Company were a group of thespians in the late '60s and early '70s who meant to open the eyes of the British people to what was wrong in their contemporary world....
 from 1968 - 1971. Hare was Resident Dramatist at the Royal Court Theatre
Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre is a West End Theatre#London's non-commercial theatres theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea....
, London, from 1970-1971, and in 1973 became resident dramatist at the Nottingham Playhouse
Nottingham Playhouse

The Nottingham Playhouse is a theatre in Nottingham, England. It was first established as a repertory theatre in the 1950s when it operated from a former cinema....
, a major provincial theatre. In 1975, Hare co-founded the Joint Stock Company with David Aukin and Max Stafford-Clark
Max Stafford-Clark

Maxwell Robert Guthrie Stewart Stafford-Clark is an England Theatre Director. He went to school at Felsted School and Riverdale Country School in New York City....
. Hare began writing for the National Theatre
National theatre

Several countries have one or more national theatres. This component in the name of a theatre indicates that the funding is not only a concern of private investors or the local city, but of the national or federal budget....
 and in 1978 his play Plenty was produced at the National Theatre, followed by A Map of the World in 1983, and Pravda in 1985, co-written with Howard Brenton
Howard Brenton

Howard John Brenton is an English playwright. He was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, on 13 December, 1942, son of Donald Henry Brenton and his wife Rose Lilian ....
. David Hare became the Associate Director of the National Theatre in 1984, and has since seen many of his plays produced, such as his trilogy of plays Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges, and The Absence of War. Hare has also directed many other plays aside from his own works, such as; The Pleasure Principle by Snoo Wilson, Weapons of Happiness by Howard Brenton, and King Lear
King Lear

King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606, and is considered one of his greatest works....
 by William Shakespeare for the National Theatre. David Hare is also the author of a collection of lectures on the arts and politics called Obedience, Struggle, and Revolt.

Hare founded a film company called Greenpoint Films in 1982, and has written screenplays such as Plenty, Wetherby, Strapless, and Paris by Night. Aside from movies Hare has also written teleplays for the BBC such as Licking Hitler, and Saigon: The Year of the Cat. His career is examined in the Reputations strand on TheatreVoice
TheatreVoice

TheatreVoice is a free World Wide Web theatre forum launched by Dominic Cavendish and others in September 2003. It offers over 480 audio recordings of discussions about United Kingdom theatre featuring a wide range of critics, journalists, academics and theatre professionals....
.

Hare's awards include the BAFTA Award (1979), the New York Drama Critics Circle Award (1983), the Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear (1985), the Olivier Award (1990), and the London Theatre Critics' Award (1990). He was knighted in 1998.

Hare is married to the French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 fashion designer Nicole Farhi
Nicole Farhi

Nicole Farhi, Lady Hare, CBE is a Jewish French people fashion designer and sculpture born in Nice, France, of algerian descent.She started her career as a freelance in Paris, before moving to London in the 1970s to work with Stephen Marks on his French Connection label....
.

Plays

  • Slag (1970)
  • The Great Exhibition (1972)
  • Brassneck (1973) (with Howard Brenton
    Howard Brenton

    Howard John Brenton is an English playwright. He was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, on 13 December, 1942, son of Donald Henry Brenton and his wife Rose Lilian ....
    )
  • Knuckle (1974)
  • Fanshen (1975)
  • Teeth 'n' Smiles (1975)
  • Plenty
    Plenty (play)

    Plenty is a play by David Hare about British post-war disillusion. Susan Traherne, a former secret agent, is a woman conflicted by the contrast between her past, exciting triumphs ? she had worked behind enemy lines as a Special Operations Executive courier in Nazi-occupied France during World War II ? and the mundane nature of her prese...
     (1978)
  • A Map of the World (1982)
  • Pravda
    Pravda (play)

    Pravda is a play by David Hare and Howard Brenton. It was first produced at the Royal National Theatre on 2 May 1985, directed by David Hare starring Anthony Hopkins in the role of Lambert Le Roux....
     (1985) (with Howard Brenton
    Howard Brenton

    Howard John Brenton is an English playwright. He was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, on 13 December, 1942, son of Donald Henry Brenton and his wife Rose Lilian ....
    )
  • The Bay at Nice, and Wrecked Eggs (1986)
  • The Secret Rapture (1988)
  • Racing Demon
    Racing Demon (play)

    Racing Demon is a 1990 play by English playwright David Hare . Part of a trio of plays about British institutions, it focuses on the Church of England, and tackles issues such as Homosexuality and Christianity, and the role of evangelism in inner-city communities....
     (1990)
  • Murmuring Judges
    Murmuring Judges

    Murmuring Judges is a scathing attack on the United Kingdom legal system, and the second of a trilogy of plays by David Hare examining Great Britain's most hallowed institutions....
     (1991)
  • The Absence of War
    The Absence of War

    The Absence of War is a play by Englsih playwright, David Hare , the final installment of his trilogy about contemporary Britain. The play premiered in 1993 at the Royal National Theatre, London, England....
     (1993)
  • Skylight
    Skylight (play)

    Skylight is a play by British dramatist David Hare . It opened at the Royal National Theatre, Cottesloe, directed by Richard Eyre, in 1995. The production then moved to the Wyndham's Theatre for a short run from 13 February 1996, after winning the Laurence Olivier Award for the 1995 season....
     (1995)
  • Amy's View
    Amy's View

    Amy?s View was written by British playwright David Hare, and originally premiered in London at the Royal National Theatre?s Lyttelton Theatre on June 13th, 1997....
     (1997)
  • The Blue Room
    The Blue Room

    The Blue Room is a 1998 Play by David Hare , adapted from Der Reigen written by Arthur Schnitzler , and more usually known as La Ronde ....
     (1998) (adapted from Arthur Schnitzler
    Arthur Schnitzler

    File:Arthur_Schnitzler_1912.jpgDr. Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrians Austrian literature and dramatist....
    )
  • The Judas Kiss
    The Judas Kiss

    "The Judas Kiss" is the forty-third Single by American heavy metal music band Metallica, and the fourth from their ninth studio album, Death Magnetic....
     (1998)
  • Via Dolorosa
    Via Dolorosa (play)

    Via Dolorosa is a play by United Kingdom dramatist David Hare , in the form of a monologue. It deals with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through Hare's own 1997 journey through Israel and Palestine, and the 33 people whom he met....
     (1998)
  • My Zinc Bed (2000)
  • The Breath of Life (play)
    The Breath of Life (play)

    The Breath of Life is a play by dramatist David Hare . It tells the story of a woman who is confronted by the wife of her lover. Over the course of one day and one night, the two women reflect on their lives and the relationship with the central, yet offstage, male character....
     (2002)
  • The Permanent Way
    The Permanent Way

    The Permanent Way is a play by David Hare .In 1991 the British government decided to Privatisation of British Rail. David Hare tells the story through the powerful first-hand accounts of those most intimately involved....
     (2004)
  • Stuff Happens
    Stuff Happens

    Stuff Happens is a play by David Hare , written in response to the Iraq War. Hare describes it as "a history play" that deals with recent history....
     (2004)
  • The Vertical Hour
    The Vertical Hour

    The Vertical Hour is a play by David Hare . The play addresses the relationship of characters with opposing views on the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and also explores psychological tension between public lives and private lives....
      (2006)
  • Gethsemane
    Gethsemane (play)

    Gethsemane is a play by David Hare . It premi?red at the Royal National Theatre in London on 4 November 2008.Although the work opens with a reflection on the sway religious books hold over their adherents, it soon establishes itself as a political piece dramatising the methods used by the governing Labour Party in Britain to raise par...
     (2008)


Television and film scripts

  • Licking Hitler
    Plenty (play)

    Plenty is a play by David Hare about British post-war disillusion. Susan Traherne, a former secret agent, is a woman conflicted by the contrast between her past, exciting triumphs ? she had worked behind enemy lines as a Special Operations Executive courier in Nazi-occupied France during World War II ? and the mundane nature of her prese...
     (1978)
  • Dreams of Leaving (1980)
  • Plenty
    Plenty (film)

    Plenty is a 1985 in film UK drama film directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Meryl Streep . It was adapted from David Hare 's Plenty ....
     (1985) - based on his play
  • Strapless
    Strapless

    Strapless is a 1989 in film film written and Film director by David Hare ....
     (1989)
  • The Hours
    The Hours (film)

    The Hours is a 2002 in film Cinema of the United States/Cinema of the United Kingdom drama film directed by Stephen Daldry. The screenplay by David Hare is based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours by Michael Cunningham....
     (2002) - based on the novel
    The Hours (novel)

    The Hours is a 1998 in literature novel written by Michael Cunningham. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later made into an Academy Awards-winning 2002 The Hours starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore....
     by Michael Cunningham
    Michael Cunningham

    Michael Cunningham is an award-winning United States writer, best known for his 1998 novel The Hours , which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999....
  • The Corrections (2007) - based on the novel
    The Corrections

    The Corrections is a 2001 in literature novel by United States author Jonathan Franzen. It revolves around the troubles of an elderly Midwestern United States couple and their three adult children, tracing their lives from the mid-twentieth century to "one last Christmas" together near the turn of the millennium....
     by Jonathan Franzen
    Jonathan Franzen

    Jonathan Franzen is an award-winning United States novelist and essayist....
  • My Zinc Bed
    My Zinc Bed (2008 Film)

    My Zinc Bed is a 2008 in film TV Drama directed by Anthony Page and based on the stage play of the same name by David Hare . It was commissioned by the BBC and produced in association with HBO Films....
     (2008) - based on his play
  • Murder in Samarkand
    Murder in Samarkand

    Murder in Samarkand is a non-fiction book by British activist and former ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray. The book forms a account of Murray's controversial ambassadorship at the UK embassy in Tashkent in 2002?04....
     (2008) - based on the memoir by Craig Murray
    Craig Murray

    Craig Murray is a United Kingdom political activist, former ambassador to Uzbekistan and current Rector of the University of Dundee.While at the embassy in Tashkent, he accused the Government of Uzbekistan of human rights abuses, a step which, he argued, was against the wishes of the British government and the reason for his removal....
    , former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan
    Uzbekistan

    Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan , is a Landlocked_country#Doubly_landlocked_country country in Central Asia, formerly part of the Soviet Union....
  • The Reader
    The Reader (film)

    The Reader is a 2008 in film drama film based on the 1995 in literature German language The Reader by Bernhard Schlink. The film adaptation was written by David Hare and directed by Stephen Daldry....
     (2008) - based on the novel
    The Reader

    The Reader is an award-winning novel by German people law professor and judge Bernhard Schlink. It was published in Germany in 1995 and in the United States in 1997....
     by Bernhard Schlink
    Bernhard Schlink

    Bernhard Schlink is a Germany jurist and writer. He was born in Bethel, Germany, to a German father and a Swiss mother, the youngest of 4 children....


Directing credits

  • Licking Hitler for BBC1's Play for Today (1978) (TV film)
  • Dreams of Leaving for BBC1's Play for Today (1980)
  • Wetherby
    Wetherby (film)

    Wetherby is a 1985 in film Great Britain drama film written and directed by David Hare , known as one of the leading British playwrights of his generation....
     (1985)
  • Paris by Night (1988)
  • Strapless
    Strapless

    Strapless is a 1989 in film film written and Film director by David Hare ....
     (1989)
  • Paris, May 1919 (1993) (TV episode)
  • The Designated Mourner
    The Designated Mourner

    The Designated Mourner is a Play written by Wallace Shawn in 1996 in literature, which was adapted into a film directed by David Hare in 1997 in film....
    , written by Wallace Shawn
    Wallace Shawn

    Wallace Shawn , sometimes credited as Wally Shawn, is an United States actor and playwright. Regularly seen on film and television, where he is usually cast as a comic character actor, he has pursued a parallel career as a playwright whose work is often dark, politically charged and controversial....
     (1989)
  • Heading Home (1991) (TV film)
  • The Year of Magical Thinking
    The Year of Magical Thinking

    The Year of Magical Thinking , by Joan Didion , is an account of the year following the death of the author's husband John Gregory Dunne . Published by Knopf in October 2005, the book was immediately acclaimed as a classic in the genre of mourning literature....
     (2007) (Broadway
    Broadway theatre

    Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
     play by Joan Didion
    Joan Didion

    Joan Didion is an United States journalist, essayist, and novelist. Didion contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books. In a 1979 New York Times review of Didion's collection The White Album , critic Michiko Kakutani noted, "Novelist and poet James Dickey has called Didion 'the finest woman prose stylist writing in Eng...
     starring Vanessa Redgrave
    Vanessa Redgrave

    Vanessa Redgrave Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award winning England actor. She is the most famous member of the Redgrave family, the world renowned theatrical dynasty....
    )


Books

  • Acting Up
    Acting Up

    Acting Up is a Hardy Boys novel.The Hardys delve into the world of Bollywood cinema, and head to India to solve a mystery involving an evil enemy, and a set for a new movie....
     (A diary on his experiences of acting in his own play, the one-man-show on the topic of Israel/Palestine, Via Dolorosa.)
  • (Faber and Faber, 2005)
  • by Richard Boon (Faber and Faber, 2006)


Awards


  • Evening Standard Award
    Evening Standard Awards

    The Evening Standard Theatre Awards, established in 1955, are presented annually for outstanding achievements in West End theatre. Sponsored by the Evening Standard newspaper, they are announced in late November or early December....
     for best play of 1985, for Pravda
    Pravda (play)

    Pravda is a play by David Hare and Howard Brenton. It was first produced at the Royal National Theatre on 2 May 1985, directed by David Hare starring Anthony Hopkins in the role of Lambert Le Roux....
    ,
  • The BAFTA Award (British Academy of Film and Television) for best single play in 1979, for Licking Hitler
  • The New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best foreign play in1983, for Plenty
The Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear in1985, for Wetherby
  • The Olivier Award for best new play in 1990, Racing Demon
  • The London Theatre Critics’ Award best play in 1990, for Racing Demon


External links

  • - UK publisher of many of David Hare's plays and books on theatre
  • , at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
    University of Texas at Austin

    The University of Texas at Austin is a public university research university located in Austin, Texas, Texas, United States, and is the flagship#University campuses institution of University of Texas System....