Hare, Sir David

Hare, Sir David

▪ British playwright and director
born June 5, 1947, St. Leonards, Sussex, Eng.

      British playwright and director, noted for his deftly crafted satires examining British society in the post-World War II era.

      Hare graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1968 and founded an experimental touring theatre group that same year. He directed some of its productions and soon began writing plays for the group, including Slag (1970). With The Great Exhibition (1972) and Knuckle (1974) Hare established himself as a talented playwright and a vigorous critic of the dubious mores of British public life. Teeth 'n' Smiles (1975) examined the milieu of rock musicians, while the widely praised play Plenty (1978) was a searching study of the erosion of a woman's personality, metaphorically evoking Britain's contemporaneous postwar decline. He continued to direct productions at various London theatres during the 1970s and '80s. Pravda: A Fleet Street Comedy (1985), a play about newspaper tycoons coauthored with Howard Brenton, was the first of a series of plays castigating British institutions. It was followed by Racing Demon (1990), about the Church of England; Murmuring Judges (1991), about the legal profession; and The Absence of War (1993), about politicians.

      Hare became known as a screenwriter for his film adaptation of Plenty in 1985. He also adapted The Secret Rapture (1988), his play exploring the complex relationship between two sisters, for film in 1994. Hare wrote several plays for television and wrote and directed the films Wetherby (1985) and Strapless (1989). His screenplay adaptation (2002) of Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours was nominated for an Academy Award. He was knighted in 1998.

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