Hare, Sir David
Hare, Sir David ( 1947 – ),dramatist and director, born in Bexhill. After some time in fringe theatre, during which he co-founded (with Tony Bicat) the Portable Theatre Company, he succeeded Christopher Hampton as resident dramatist at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1970 – 1 , moving to a residence at the Nottingham Playhouse in 1973 . Slag ( 1970 ), The Great Exhibition ( 1972 ), and Knuckle ( 1974 ) marked him out as a powerful and original talent with a keen eye for both the iniquities of social privilege and the contradictions of radical idealism. Class antagonism at Cambridge, when a rock band plays at a May Ball at Jesus College, was the subject of Teeth n' Smiles ( 1976 ), first produced at the Royal Court in September 1975 with Helen Mirren in the role of Maggie, the band's singer. In Plenty ( 1978 ), produced at the National Theatre , Hare provides a...
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