A Politic Theatre The Drama Of David Hare
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Author | : Scott Fraser |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2022-06-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004484973 |
This analysis of twenty published texts by David Hare employs definitions from contemporary semiotic literary theory as a means of describing typologies of political drama. By tracing the incorporation of stylistic devices from agitational propaganda (caricature, self-referentiality, the frisson between oral and visual signification) throughout the typologies, the study illustrates how each text subverts audience expectation based on established dramatic genres. The collection of texts is seen as inherently self-referential and politically subversive. At the centre of each typology is a protagonist who functions as a martyr to or parodic emblem of contemporary society. Consistently, the hermeticism of public institutions which represent the political status quo makes them immune from any form of individual protest from the Left or Right. In the satirical anatomy, the emblem of political dissent is coopted by involvement within the institution, or the stage is dominated by a conservative who controls the action. In the demythology, private individuals are seen as incapable of altering the public frame of history; but here private suffering subverts the collective mythology of the historical construct. In the martyrology, the emblem of dissent is associated with a moral virtue which is inimical to contemporary society, the audience's expectation of the triumph of the individual being subverted when he/she is expelled from the onstage world on the grounds of political ideology. It is only in the final typology, the conversion, that a conservative emblem is seen as directly influenced by such martyrdom, and the audience is provided with an actual example of political change. Thus, the study describes how each typology builds on the construction of the previous, and all generate from agitational propaganda.
Author | : Judy Lee Oliva |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
A comprehensive examination of British playwright/director David Hare's work in the past decades. Included are textual analyses of over twenty plays, television scripts, and feature films, addressing both literary and performance issues. The texts are explored in relation to content, form, and style, and how each of these components work together or alone to produce Hare's sociopolitical critique. Illustrated with photographs from productions directed by Hare. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : David Hare |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0571301371 |
Nothing is more important to a modern political party than fund-raising. But the values of the donors can't always coincide with the professed beliefs of the party. And family scandal within the cabinet has the potential to throw both the money-raisers and the money-spenders into chaos. This richly imagined ensemble play about British public life looks at the way business, media and politics are now intertwined to nobody's advantage, as, in an unforgiving world, one character after another passes through Gethsemane. Gethsemane, David Hare's fourteenth original play for the National Theatre, London, premiered in November 2008.
Author | : David Hare |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2005-12-27 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0571228720 |
What is a political playwright? Does theatre have any direct effect on society? Why choose to work in a medium which speaks to so few? Is theatre itself facing oblivion? All frequent questions addressed to David Hare over the last thirty-five years, as his work has taken him from the travelling fringe to the National Theatre, from seasons on Broadway to performances in prisons, church halls and on bare floors. Since 1978, Hare has sought uniquely to address these and other questions in occasional lectures given both in Britain and abroad. Now, for the first time, these lectures are collected together with some of his more recent prose pieces about God, Iraq, Israel/Palestine and the privatisation of the railways. Bringing to the lectern the same wit, insight and gift for the essential for which his plays are known, Hare presents the distilled result of a lifetime's sustained thinking about art and politics. 'The foremost theatrical chronicler of contemporary British life.' New York Times 'Our best writer of contemporary drama.' Sunday Times
Author | : Carol Homden |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1995-03-09 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521417150 |
This is the first full-length survey of one of the leading playwrights of the postwar generation. Through his career as playwright, filmmaker, and director, David Hare has been at the forefront of modern theater and his work is frequently seen as a reflection of the contemporary political and `ocial environment of Britain. In a thorough and fascinating analysis, Carol Homden examines the works of David Hare, including the film versions of Plenty, Pravda, and Wetherby, as well as the plays he has written for the Royal National Theatre. Homden also discusses Hare's most recent plays and identifies a new direction for the playwright.
Author | : David Hare |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2013-03-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0571301428 |
The Absence of War offers a meditation on the classic problems of leadership, and is the third part of a critically acclaimed trilogy of plays ( Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges) about British institutions. Its unsparing portrait of a Labour Party torn between past principles and future prosperity, and of a deeply sympathetic leader doomed to failure, made the play hugely controversial and prophetic when it was first presented at the National Theatre, London, in 1993.
Author | : Finlay Donesky |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996-11-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0313297347 |
In the last 30 years, David Hare has written 12 stage plays, seven screenplays and one opera, and has gained international attention as one of Britain's major contemporary playwrights. Hare's prominence springs not only from the sheer volume of his work, but from his long career of chronicling the social and political fragmentation in postwar Britain. This is the first work to demystify the implications of Hare's presentation of the moral and political health of the British nation. Arguing that one needs to have a deeply informed sense of English and British identity and postwar British society in order to understand Hare's work, Donesky thoroughly contextualizes and historicizes Hare's work. This study demonstrates how Hare's seemingly enigmatic moral vision is actually characteristic of the attitudes of Britain's governing classes.
Author | : Jack Tep |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1796086932 |
This book is about coincidents that have happened in my life that affected the American public, from cities being changed forever once we left to important buildings being raised. These are just a few incidents that can be remembered. Sayings such as “rip off” or “under the bus” are identified and repeated often publicly. Somehow, songs of the fifties could be traced to my experiences.
Author | : David Hare |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2018-10-11 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0571345816 |
Should I run? This is the question Pauline Gibson is asking herself. She has spent her adult life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a campaign for local health provision. When she crosses paths with her old boyfriend, Jack Gould, who has made his way in Labour party politics, she's faced with an agonising decision.What's involved in sacrificing your private life and your peace of mind for something more than a single issue? Does she dare?David Hare was recently described by the Washington Post as 'the premiere political dramatist writing in English.' His explosive new play portrays the history of a twenty year intimate friendship and its public repercussions.David Hare's new play I'm not Running, premieres at the National Theatre, London, in October 2018.
Author | : David Hare |
Publisher | : Samuel French, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Conformity |
ISBN | : 9780573619182 |
Susan Traherne returns to her home in post-war Britain haunted by her experiences as a resistance fighter in occupied France.