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David Hare: A Political and Personal Playwright - Lantern Theater Company: Searchlight ... - 0 views

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  • The Vertical Hour was Hare’s next play after Stuff Happens, making the global machinations of the Iraq War and the related decisions and consequences intensely personal. This, too, is a hallmark of Hare’s work. His plays are populated by damaged idealists trying to find a way to live right in a world of broken and corrupt institutions, but they are never content to offer just one view — even if the playwright himself passionately holds one opinion.
  • Working to bridge the political left and right, or at least to locate the places where they overlap, is a core component of his work, and specifically of The Vertical Hour
  • “I was very interested in the position of the pro-war liberals. They had a very strong moral case for intervention. It was part of something that had been building up over the previous 10 or 15 years in Africa, in Yugoslavia, where a whole lot of well-intentioned liberals came to believe that the West had a moral duty to intervene when there was great deal of suffering. Although I was against the war, I could see that there was a virtuous case.”
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  • Giving all sides a hearing is not just a political tactic in his plays, though; it is essential to crafting work that highlights contemporary issues through finely realized and deeply felt characters
  • Hare’s work, populated by those who want to help, those who want to exploit broken institutions, and those caught in the morass of contemporary life, aims to make a tangible difference in those lives and institutions.
  • Beckett said that famous thing, the number of tears in the world is constant, meaning, whatever you do, there is such a thing called the human condition and it’s always the same,” Hare said to NPR.
  • “I don’t believe that. I believe things are very different in one country to another and at one time and another, and you can actually relieve the number of tears in the world. And you can make them less and that the job of making them less is a noble job and something worth undertaking.”
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