CCCB HIGHLIGHTS - Week of 5 to 12 November Nov 7, 2009
Thursday 12 November, at 7 p.m.DRAMATISED READING: Berlin/Wall by David Hare. Director: Carlota Subir;s. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Recession stokes fire for writers, audiences alike Sep 23, 2009
One of Britain's leading playwrights, David Hare, is tackling the world of toxic securities and subprime mortgages in his new play at the National Theatre in London. Author Sebastian Faulks has a new best-seller about a swashbuckling hedge fund trader. (Business Report, South Africa)
Knife to the dark heart of politics Aug 28, 2009
David Hare talks to David Marr about power and its abuses, and why Neil Armfield is a true artist. David Hare ''You pay a price for moral compromise ... What I wanted to do was portray an ambience of obscene self confidence which New Labour radiated for so many years," says David Hare of his new play Gethsemane. That spin doctors' "new" was dropped from the brand name years ago, but Hare deploys it with menacing relish as he flays Tony Blair's government. "A lot of people are driven absolutely... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Storyteller found his voice on stage Mar 21, 2009
Shaped by his upbringing in a Jewish immigrant family, which brought an outsider perspective, the director was finding his distinctive voice in a lively, politically engaged decade when writers such as John Osborne, Howard Brenton, David Hare, Tom Stoppard and Caryl Churchill were being daring and ambitious. "When I started out I was 22 and there was a general climate of experimentation and people challenging the status quo," he says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Full list of Oscar 2009 Nominations Feb 20, 2009
Adapted Screenplay:Eric Roth and Robin Swicord, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button; John Patrick Shanley, Doubt; Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon; David Hare, The Reader; Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire. 9. (Xinhuanet, China)
Period films: Cruise,Mortensengo backto WWII Feb 7, 2009
Director Daldry and writer David Hare are the team that brought us The Hours and Winslet could face herself in the best actress Oscar category. This is the movie that the Weinstein Company for. (MSNBC -- Movies)
