The Blue Touch Paper
A Memoir
(Sprache: Englisch)
The shockingly funny and brilliant memoir from one of Britain's greatest and best-loved writers.
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The shockingly funny and brilliant memoir from one of Britain's greatest and best-loved writers.
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When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written five of them. Yet he was born in 1947 into an anonymous suburban street in Hastings. It is a world he believes to be as completely vanished as Victorian England.Now in his first panoramic work of memoir, ending as Margaret Thatcher comes to power in 1979, David Hare describes his childhood, his Anglo-Catholic education and his painful apprenticeship to the trade of dramatist. He sets the progress of his own life against the history of a time in which faith in hierarchy, deference, religion, the empire and finally politics all withered away. Only belief in private virtue remains.
In his customarily dazzling prose and with great warmth and humour, David Hare explores how so radical a shift could have occurred, and how it is reflected in his own lifelong engagement with two disparate art forms - film and theatre. In The Blue Touch Paper David Hare describes a life of trial and error: both how he became a writer and the high price he and those around him paid for that decision.
Autoren-Porträt von David Hare
David Hare is a playwright and filmmaker. His stage plays include Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton) Racing Demon , Skylight, Amy's View, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, South Downs, The Absence of War and The Judas Kiss. His films for cinema and television include Wetherby, The Hours, Damage, The Reader and the Worricker trilogy: Page Eight, Turks & Caicos and Salting the Battlefield . He has written English adaptations of plays by Pirandello, Chekhov, Brecht, Schnitzler, Lorca, Gorky and Ibsen. For fifteen years he was an Associate Director of the National Theatre. David Hare is the author of 30 full-length plays for the stage, seventeen of which have been presented at the National Theatre. They include Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, The Blue Room and Stuff Happens . His many screenplays for film and television include The Hours, The Reader, Page Eight, Turks & Caico s and Salting the Battlefield .
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: David Hare
- 2015, 368 Seiten, Maße: 16,2 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
- ISBN-10: 0571294332
- ISBN-13: 9780571294336
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.08.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
But this is, throughout, an invigorating memoir, an elegantly unvarnished tale. It is fascinating to learn that Hare discovered a talent for dialogue before he had written a play. The account of the legendary Portable Theatre Company is absorbing too, filling one with nostalgia for an age when travelling light was easy. And his account of his vain attempts to sell vacuum cleaners in the US as a young man is priceless. Kate Kellaway The Observer
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