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...Another two-character play, and the two women are the wife of a man who has just left her for a younger woman and the man's long-time mistress. Had anyone put this trope on stage before David Hare? A small, pretty, witty play given snap and stature by the presence of its stars, "The Breath of Life" reveals a major playwright in the narrowing career journey from the political epics of his early years to the intimate, no-less-barbed confrontations of "Amy's View" and this two-hander. Some theatergoers wanted to follow this trajectory; most wanted...
...Coast of Utopia" was part of a trifecta of new works by top English playwrights. London this fall also has on offer "A Number" by Caryl Churchill - of "Cloud Nine" and "Top Girls" glory -and David Hare's "The Breath of Life," a star vehicle for Maggie Smith and Judi Dench. (Would you import the Irishman Brian Friel to join this exalted company? I wouldn't, quite, but Friel had a new piece too: "Afterplay," a slight memory-play with old charmers John Hurt and Penelope Wilton as characters from Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" and "Three Sisters...
...past, I'd have thought, is that you always know what's going to happen. ... He's going to leave you." We've all done it: the perverse parsing of a doomed love affair, the endless replaying of a favorite movie with an unhappy ending. I'm grateful that Hare lived in these women's past long enough to report on the everyday anguish of living a half-life, then living alone...
Nudity seems to be everywhere in the theater these days, and it's not just the usual flashes of breasts and buttocks. Nicole Kidman got headlines a few years ago for shedding her clothes in David Hare's The Blue Room, and Kathleen Turner is doing the same right now as Mrs. Robinson in a lame Broadway adaptation of The Graduate. But these actresses are glimpsed fleetingly, through low light and coy angles. Today it's the men who are letting it all hang...
Besides Falicov, the Harvard students arrested were Matthew R. Skomarovsky ’03, Jessica A. Fragola ’04 and Divinity student James P. Hare. They were charged with disrupting the peace and trespassing, both misdemeanors, and began to be released...