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:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	496
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

David Hare
Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton), The Secret Rapture, Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, The Blue Room, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, The Absence of War, The Judas Kiss, The Red Barn, The Moderate Soprano, I'm Not Running and Beat the Devil. For cinema, he has written The Hours, The Reader, Damage, Denial, Wetherby and The White Crow among others, while his television films include Licking Hitler, the Worricker Trilogy, Collateral and Roadkill. In a millennial poll of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, five of the top hundred were his.

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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