Obedience, struggle & revolt : lectures on theatre / David Hare.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hare, David, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater.

Theater--Political aspects.

Playwriting.

theater (discipline).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Obedience, struggle and revolt

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Faber and Faber, 2005.

Summary:

"Most of these lectures relate in some way to the performing arts. At a certain point – I can date it exactly – I threw in my lot with the British theatre. It was a decision, and a conscious one at that. This was the place where I wanted to spend the greater part of my life. Inevitably, I have sometimes regretted it. But never for long. V. S. Naipaul has said that if he were a young man, he would no longer contemplate a life in literature, because the tradition he wanted to be part of has ceased to exist. Sean Penn has decided never to act on stage again, because he does not believe the American theatre any longer commands an audience which is interesting to play to. The work may be worthwhile, but the qualitative experience of presenting it is not. Well, perhaps. Inevitably, most of us in the older arts feel from time to time that we are spending our lives in what the film director Stephen Frears calls ‘heroic retreat’. Our whole way of life may seem defensive, because we have a memory of values and forms which can sometimes appear to be of diminishing interest to the public at large. And yet, for all that, there is little profit indulging the self-pity of ‘golden agery’. Anyway, it seems too easy."-- From the introduction.

Contents:

Obedience, struggle & revolt

I have a go, lady, I have a go

Eulogy for John Osborne

Why fabulate?

A defence of the new

The play is in the air

What Asian babes? What Nazis?

The cordless phone

Raymond Williams: “I can’t be a father to everyone”

Harold Pinter: Going on seventy

Alan Clarke: Banned for life

The separation of wheel and track

The second intifada

Chardonnay on the Potomac

When shall we live?

Notes:

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Drama Online, viewed June 18, 2026).

Other Format:

Pring version: Hare, David,1947- Obedience, struggle & revolt.

OCLC:

1036752483

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