David Hare Plays 1: Slag; Teeth 'n' Smiles; Knuckle; Licking Hitler; Plenty

by David Hare

Overview

This first volume of David Hare's plays contains his work from the 1970s, including his landmark play of that decade, Plenty, charting the development of 'one of the great post-war British playwrights' (Independent on Sunday).

The volume also includes the plays Slag, Teeth 'n' Smiles, Knuckle and Licking Hitler, and is introduced by the author.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780571300990
Publisher:	Faber and Faber
Publication date:	04/04/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	496
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

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.

Editorial Reviews

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

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