Word: hares
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...face of it, who in the British theater world appears more established, and Establishment, than playwright David Hare? Last year, despite his decades of scathingly political writing targeted at the holy trinity of monarchy, government and church, he was knighted. In London, where the theater is woven into the fabric of everyday life as in no other place in the world, Hare is one of the city's most popular and prolific craftsmen. In 1998 four of his works were staged--four new works, that is--and all did well enough to make...
...Hare, 51, is afraid of getting too comfortable in his own skin. Which might explain why, just as the Nicole Kidman vehicle The Blue Room ends its wildly successful run and Judi Dench is busy rehearsing for the April opening on Broadway of his London hit Amy's View, he has decided to climb out on a new limb. This month the auteur turns actor with a 12-week run performing Via Dolorosa, a monologue about, of all things, the Middle East. "I just find the regular concerns of the theater so boring," Hare says. "I just don't want...
British director Stephen Daldry originally sent Hare to the Middle East to write a conventional play. But Hare returned with a different notion: to incorporate his meetings with dozens of people into a monologue. "All his plays are forms of moral discourse in a way," says Richard Eyre, who has directed most of Hare's work over the past 30 years. "How do you live your life, that's really the question, isn't it?" Via Dolorosa emerges naturally from an earlier play about the Church of England, Racing Demon, and also from a bold 1996 lecture Hare gave...
...Dolorosa was generally well received in London, but New York may be different. In a town where Hillary Clinton's mere mention of a possible Palestinian state can provoke outrage, Hare's sympathy toward the Palestinians and his portrayal of some Israelis as conspiracy theorists who believe that Yitzhak Rabin arranged his own assassination to discredit right-wing Jews may come as something of a shock. Says Daldry: "I would just hope people see the whole argument...
...vagaries of buzz. Nicole Kidman comes to Broadway in a David Hare trifle, and the theater world foams at the mouth in anticipation. Uma Thurman, another hot film star, makes her off-Broadway debut in a Moliere classic and gets a big yawn. To be sure, her performance betrays inexperience: slouchy and tentative instead of brittle and biting. But the production around her is smashing. Director Barry Edelstein puts slick designer duds on Crimp's smart update of the play to the phony '90s show-biz world, and the terrific Roger Rees, as Alceste, could teach any young actress...