ABSTRACT
A prolific writer for, and director in, the theatre, with a career that has spanned over 27 years and shows no sign of faltering, David Hare has also directed films and written screenplays. Hare explained his rejection of much contemporary theatre as a rejection of a particular kind of naturalism, when he grew up, the stage was the prisoner of the closed set, the one-room play, the psychological drama etc. It was the cinema that excited him, especially the European cinema of the French New Wave and British popular genres. If Hare's plays are considered filmic, it is often because they seem to employ forms of montage in their narrative construction as well as in the composition of images. Hare's plays move between the public and private, the domestic and the institutional, only rarely accepting the restrictions of the single-set space, as in Skylight, and often disrupting a conventional chronology in the process.
