Podcasts about sir david hare

Good theatre holds a mirror up to society, forcing audiences to shine a light on the darkest corners and recesses of society. In these tumultuous times, it's easy to wonder where is our world headed, and how we might navigate the new obstacles that arise when we get there?  Fortunately, British playwright Sir David Hare, is no stranger to pondering these mind bending questions. During his illustrious career he has written over 30 plays often examining the machinations of British politics and institutions, and its these plays that have seen him named, “the premier political dramatist writing in English” by The Washington Post.   So how has writing shaped Sir David Hare's vision for where society is headed? And how might creativity unlock a way to adapt to what the future holds? In discussion with theatre producer Jo Dyer, David Hare speaks about his remarkable career as a playwright, and his creative plans for the future. This event is presented by the UNSW Centre for Ideas and supported by the Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture and Adelaide Writers' Week.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

400 years after the publication of William Shakespeare's First Folio, five writers are each asked to pick a speech from one of the Folio's plays, tell it what they think it means, and what it means to them. This time, award-winning playwright, screenwriter and director David Hare chooses a speech by Macbeth in Act 5, Scene 3 of the play. David tells us how Shakespeare perfected his gift for the lone monologue to help reveal what is going on inside a character's head. In Act 5, Scene 3 of Macbeth, the lead character waits for news of an English army which has been assembled in an attempt to destroy him. As he waits, he gives a speech in which he thinks about what life will be like if he makes it to old age. It's a speech which moves David. He ponders what makes the play so hard to perform, in an essay which takes us from Quentin Tarantino to Philip Larkin. Produced by Camellia Sinclair for BBC Audio in Bristol Mixed by Suzy Robins

Good theatre holds a mirror up to society, forcing audiences to shine a light on the darkest corners and recesses of society. In these tumultuous times, it's easy to wonder where is our world headed, and how we might navigate the new obstacles that arise when we get there?  Fortunately, British playwright Sir David Hare, is no stranger to pondering these mind bending questions. During his illustrious career he has written over 30 plays often examining the machinations of British politics and institutions, and its these plays that have seen him named, “the premier political dramatist writing in English” by The Washington Post.   So how has writing shaped Sir David Hare's vision for where society is headed? And how might creativity unlock a way to adapt to what the future holds? In discussion with theatre producer Jo Dyer, David Hare speaks about his remarkable career as a playwright, and his creative plans for the future. This event is presented by the UNSW Centre for Ideas and supported by the Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture and Adelaide Writers' Week.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The legendary British playwright Sir David Hare is widely regarded as British theater's most fervent chronicler of his country's moral failings, to use the words of New York Times critic Bill Brantley. Of himself,  Hare has said, “It's usually assumed that there are two groups of people in the world, those who obey the rules and those who disobey the rules, but in fact there's a third group to which I belong: the people who don't understand the rules.” Luckily for us, that misunderstanding, or curiosity, has been channeled into 39 plays over 50 years, as well as notable adaptations of other works, including screenplays for Michael Cunningham's The Hours and Bernard Schlink's The Reader, for both of which he received Academy Award nominations. But Hare's entry into playwriting was something of a happy accident, after a theater troupe he was working with, found itself in sudden need of a play. Hare jumped in, turning around a script in four days. That work, which explored the then-nascent feminist movement, exhibited a keen interest in strong female protagonists that has marked his career ever since. It makes sense, then, that one of his book choices for Shelf Life is Mary Gabriel's Ninth Street Women about the contribution of five female artists who did anything but play by the rules, as well as Wallace Shawn's ominous short play, The Designated Mourner, dense with allusions to tyranny and complacency.

On this week's episode we're honoured that our guest is Sir David Hare, not just one of Britain's leading playwrights, but also a screenwriter and theatre and film director. He's written over 40 full length plays, 19 staged at the National, including Plenty (which went on to be a star-studded movie), Skylight and many more. He talks to us about his new play Straight Line Crazy, directed by Nicholas Hytner and showing at The Bridge Theatre in London. It opened to many reviewers saying this was David's most dramatically play for decades and stars Ralph Fiennes as Robert Moses, the man who set out to build parks and expressways across Manhattan in the 1950's. It's extraordinarily relevant to the way London is being developed at such a hectic pace, often with little or no concern for its residents. Moses wanted to extend the lower Manhattan expressway through the residential district of Washington Square where he was met by fierce opposition who managed to block the plans. One of his opponents Jane Jacobs, played by Helen Schlesinger, went on to write The Death and Life of American Great Cities about the ongoing battle between communities and the planners who oppose them. David also talks about his frequent collaborations with Ralph Fiennes, who starred last year in David's one-man play about battling Covid, Beat the Devil. He talks about the influence of America on his work and his period of self-imposed exile there after the critics panned Plenty. He laments the passing of an age in which theatre producers from Peter Hall to Richard Eyre took risks and stood by avant garde writers to be replaced by our ‘box office crazy'. He's also full of sage advice for anyone wanting to write a screenplay and explains the differences between the two. Finally, he and Ed settle down to bury the hatchet and iron out their political differences. This is David Hare at the pinnacle of his game, reflecting on a life spent in theatre, television and film – not to be missed.

Sir David Hare is renowned across the English-speaking world as the finest political storyteller alive today. In our age of blockbuster musicals and CGI superheroes, his oeuvre stands as a testament to the power of theatre and cinema to capture and even transform the soul of a nation. A student in that extraordinary year, 1968, Hare quickly emerged as a writer of courage, heart and coruscating satirical talent, fusing human drama with grand political narratives to map the convulsions of the post-war years. Whether depicting the crumbling institutions of church and state, ruthlessly mocking media tycoons, or engaging in a forensic analysis of the Suez Crisis and WMD debacle, his plays are not cold, calculating social commentary but a barometer of our age, revealing who we are and may become with a rare depth of romantic feeling. And his BAFTA winning, Golden Globe and Academy Award nominated screenplays – undisputed modern classics such as The Hours, The Reader and Damage – have brought his vision to a global audience.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Four of the First Season of Roadkill. Well, who would have thought it would all end like that? Sir David Hare gives the inside scoop on the political realities of his Roadkill series, and talks through how his own Covid-19 diagnosis was inspiration for a gripping new play.

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of the First Season of Roadkill. Sir David Hare plays coy when asked who the slick MP Peter Laurence is meant to be in contemporary British politics. "I've drawn a politician who is charismatic, popular, forward-looking, and highly intelligent," he says, and Hare struggles to find such a figure in politics today. Hear more about the inspirations for Roadkill in a new interview.

Join us as we relive our 2016 In Conversation event with internationally renowned UK playwright and screenwriter Sir David Hare. During his illustrious career, David Hare has written more than 30 plays including Plenty, Racing Demon, Amy’s View and Skylight. He has received two Academy Award nominations for his screenplay adaptations of The Hours and The Reader. In this event presented by Melbourne Theatre Company in partnership with The Wheeler Centre, David Hare spoke with Australian barrister and writer Julian Burnside about politics, art and the writing life.

Sir David Hare, playwright, gives The Tribute at A Service of Thanksgiving to celebrate the life and work of Sir Peter Hall, 11th September 2018, Westminster Abbey #westminsterabbey #sirpeterhall #theatre #sirdavidhare

In this episode of the Glyndebourne podcast Katie Derham visits the Duke of York’s Theatre in London’s West End which is currently home to a play by one of Britain's foremost playwrights, Sir David Hare. The play is called The Moderate Soprano and tells the extraordinary story of the founding of Glyndebourne by John Christie and his wife Audrey Mildmay. Katie’s guest is the Olivier Award-winning actor Roger Allam who plays the role of John Christie and tells us what it’s like to portray a man for whom opera was the guiding passion and principle of his life. The Moderate Soprano runs until the 30 June at the Duke of York's Theatre. Visit www.themoderatesoprano.com Presenter: Katie Derham Produced by Katherine Godfrey and Nathan Gower for Whistledown Productions for Glyndebourne Festival 2018 Image: Nancy Carroll and Roger Allam in The Moderate Soprano at the Duke of York's Theatre. Photographer: Johan Perrson

This month Steve and Emma look at recent 'State of the Nation' drama Collateral by Sir David Hare.  Along the way we discover Steve's Doctor Who sidekick preferences, discuss 'hatgate' and wonder whether Sir Dave was better when constrained to shorter plays.

Netflix hat endlich wieder starke Frauen im Programm: Als "Jessica Jones" lässt Krysten Ritter zum zweiten Mal die Superkräfte spielen und weist kontrollierende Männer in die Schranken. Unser Podcast-Team redet darüber, wie die Serie mit der Existenz von "The Defenders" umgeht (1:00), vergleicht die zweite mit der ersten Staffel (7:29), verteilt Lob für die Emanzipation hinter der Kamera (23:30) und Kritik für einige Nebenfiguren (34:40). Ähnlich zwiespältig fällt das Urteil für die BBC-Miniserie "Collateral" aus, in der Carey Mulligan den Mord an einem syrischen Pizzaboten aufklären soll (41:11). Tatsächlich ist die Serie von Sir David Hare jedoch eine Lektion zur Flüchtlingskrise, dem Zustand der britischen Labour Party und dem Umgang des britischen Militärs mit traumatisierten Soldatinnen. Eine Dualität, die bei unseren Redakteuren auf wenig Gegenliebe stieß. Die einen fanden die Krimi-Handlung langweilig, den anderen war die Sozialpredigt zu aufgesetzt.(56:35). Musik: "Please listen carefully" von Jahzzar

In this episode:  Big Think launched in 2008 as a "YouTube for intellectuals." Since then, it has produced over 10,000 short-form video interviews with many of the most influential and creative thinkers of our time.  Big Think's videos are bits of "expert wisdom", presented confidently and definitively against a white screen background. With THINK AGAIN, we wanted to revisit these ideas the way the audience encounters them––spontaneously, messily, and often out of context. We wanted to bring the experts to that state some thinkers call "beginner's mind" and see what would happen.  The format: Jason sits down with artists, scientists, historians––all accomplished experts in their fields. They chat a bit about the guest's work. Then, they watch three surprise Big Think interview clips (chosen by the video producers), emailed to Jason just before the interview, and discuss them. And the conversation goes where it goes.   Some amazing moments have happened this past year––fun, profound, profoundly painful. This, the fourth of our first year "mixtapes", focuses on the most memorable bits of writerly wit and wisdom from the first year of Think Again - a Big Think Podcast. With playwright and screenwriter Sir David Hare on (not) resting on your laurels, National Book Award Winner James McBride on writing with a roomful of giant talents, rapper and first-time novelist Kate Tempest on writers' block as "fear of writing", and Nobel Laureate Turkish author Orhan Pamuk on why writing programs should teach writers to manage their own psychology.  Surprise clips in this episode: Sheila Heen, Bessel Van Der Kolk, Charles Duhigg, and Augusten Burroughs About Think Again - A Big Think Podcast: You've got 10 minutes with Einstein. What do you talk about? Black holes? Time travel? Why not gambling? The Art of War? Contemporary parenting? Some of the best conversations happen when we're pushed outside of our comfort zones. Each week on Think Again, we surprise smart people you may have heard of with short clips from Big Think's interview archives on every imaginable subject. These conversations could, and do, go anywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kirsty Young's castaway is the designer and sculptor Nicole Farhi.Born into a Turkish family in France, Nicole's interest in fashion was present from an early age. As a child, she used to design clothes for her paper dolls; as a teenager, she was taken to couture shows in Paris by her stylish aunts.Aged eighteen, she enrolled in fashion school in Paris and began selling her design sketches to earn a little pocket money, thus setting out on a career as a freelance designer. In the early 1970s, she met the British entrepreneur Stephen Marks who was just starting the retail chain French Connection where she became chief designer, and it was he who encouraged her to set up her eponymous label in 1982. Her fashion empire would eventually extend to New York, London and Tokyo before being sold in 2010, and Nicole herself left the business in 2012.Since retiring from fashion, Nicole Farhi has dedicated herself to her other passion - sculpture. She sculpts predominantly in clay and then casts her works in different materials including glass, bronze and concrete.She has been married to the playwright Sir David Hare since 1992.Producer: Christine Pawlowsky.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the designer and sculptor Nicole Farhi. Born into a Turkish family in France, Nicole's interest in fashion was present from an early age. As a child, she used to design clothes for her paper dolls; as a teenager, she was taken to couture shows in Paris by her stylish aunts. Aged eighteen, she enrolled in fashion school in Paris and began selling her design sketches to earn a little pocket money, thus setting out on a career as a freelance designer. In the early 1970s, she met the British entrepreneur Stephen Marks who was just starting the retail chain French Connection where she became chief designer, and it was he who encouraged her to set up her eponymous label in 1982. Her fashion empire would eventually extend to New York, London and Tokyo before being sold in 2010, and Nicole herself left the business in 2012. Since retiring from fashion, Nicole Farhi has dedicated herself to her other passion - sculpture. She sculpts predominantly in clay and then casts her works in different materials including glass, bronze and concrete. She has been married to the playwright Sir David Hare since 1992. Producer: Christine Pawlowsky.

I’ve written hit plays. I know what a hit feels like. It doesn’t significantly change your life. You still have to start again and try and write the next one. – David Hare In this week's episode, celebrated playwright Sir David Hare opines along with host Jason Gots, on art, nuclear weapons, and whether it makes sense to bring kids into this messed up world. Sir David's latest book is The Blue Touch Paper, a poignant, searching memoir about his childhood and his life's work on stage and screen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices