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David Hare

March 2024

  • PSTG<br>Pip Simmons Theatre Group : Touring photographs taken in the UK and throughout Europe 1974 - 1987 www.sheilaburnett-photography.com

    Pip Simmons obituary

    Experimental British theatre director whose confrontational style often featured loud rock music, nudity, blasphemy and free dance

January 2024

  • Toby Jones (centre) as the lead in Mr Bates vs the Post Office, with the rest of the cast of the four-part TV series

    ‘The timing was impeccable’: why it took a TV series to bring the Post Office scandal to light

  • Tom Wilkinson

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March 2023

  • Arthur Darvill and Liza Sadovy in Oklahoma! at the Young Vic, before it transferred to Wyndham’s. Both are Olivier nominees.

    The best musicals are the equal of great plays, so why the snobbery?

    David Benedict
  • Michael Billington

    Musicals are having an exceptional moment – but classic plays are vanishing from UK stages

    Michael Billington

October 2022

  • ‘A hallucinatory experience’ … Frances Barber with Amanda Abbington and Reece Shearsmith in The Unfriend.

    ‘I threw my arms around Beckett!’ – electrifying first nights, by Ciarán Hinds, Eileen Atkins and more

    The author of a new book about the greatest openings in theatre history asks stars of stage to recall their most thrilling first nights – and the occasional disasters that befell them

August 2022

  • Frighteningly contemporary … The Roads to Freedom with Michael Bryant as Mathieu and Daniel Massey as Daniel.

    ‘Dishonest narcissists’ – David Hare on why our unshameable Tory leaders should watch The Roads to Freedom

  • Writer David Hare in his studio in Hampstead, London.

    Books interview
    David Hare: ‘There is an awful lot of pious theatre at the moment’

March 2022

  • A model performer: Ralph Fiennes in Straight Line Crazy.

    The week in theatre: Straight Line Crazy; The Human Voice – review

  • Ralph Fiennes enthrals as Robert Moses in Straight Line Crazy

    Straight Line Crazy review – Ralph Fiennes enthrals as the man who shaped New York

November 2021

  • Paul Rudd, left, and Will Ferrell in The Shrink Next Door.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Shrink Next Door; Inside the Care Crisis With Ed Balls; Beat the Devil; The Tower

    A conniving shrink takes over his patient’s life as Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd reunite; Ed Balls gets to grips with elderly care; and Ralph Fiennes fumes in the David Hare play the BBC didn’t want

October 2021

  • Ralph Fiennes in Beat The Devil, David Hare’s TV play about his experience with Covid-19.

    David Hare furious at BBC after it rejects his Covid play, starring Ralph Fiennes

    Playwright, who was gravely ill with the virus, says it’s ‘nonsense’ that viewers don’t want a pandemic drama

May 2021

  • Jimmy Akingbola and Simon Harrison in a production of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger at Jermyn Street theatre in 2008.

    David Hare: Covid-hit UK theatre needs a John Osborne-inspired revolution

    Playwright mulls mass appeal of Osborne, who is being honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque

April 2021

  • David Hare reads his poem Agony Uncle

    David Hare pens furious poem about Boris Johnson’s handling of pandemic

  • Watch David Hare read new satirical poem about Boris Johnson – video

October 2020

  • Hugh Laurie in Roadkill

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Roadkill; DNA; The Same Sky; Out of Her Mind and more

    David Hare’s political thriller had too many implausibilities to be truly enjoyable
  • Peter Laurence (Hugh Laurie) in Roadkill

    TV review
    Roadkill review – greed and corruption at the heart of the government

    Although it is set in a world not led by Brexit or the pandemic, David Hare’s four-parter is a reminder – as if we needed one – that political ambition is rarely pure
  • Roadkill.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Hugh Laurie's scandalous MP takes on the press

    David Hare pens this new drama starring Laurie as a rising politician courting disaster. Plus: The Twelve begins. Here’s what to watch this evening

September 2020

  • Indira Varma.

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  • Ralph Fiennes in Beat the Devil.

    The week in theatre: Beat the Devil; Sleepless: A Musical Romance – review

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