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Shows ran at the THOC New Theatre Building
throughout April, May and June. The play was
also presented at the Rialto Theatre in Limassol,
the Markideio Theatre in Paphos and the Larnaca
Municipal Theatre.
Aportrait of David Hare
Born on 5 June, 1947 in Sussex, England, David
Hare was educated at Lancing College, Sussex. He
went on to earn an MA in English from Jesus Col-
lege, Cambridge, in 1968.
After graduating, he co-founded the Portable Thea-
tre Company – a travelling theatre group – in 1968
with Tony Bicât. The theatre played a defining role
in the unconventional theatrical trend of the era.
Hare composed his first works for the Portable
Theatre, and was the theatre’s director from 1968
until 1971.
In 1974, he co-founded the Joint Stock Theatre
Company with Max Stafford-Clark and David
Aukin. He was the Company’s director from 1975
until 1980. Joint Stock Theatre Company was a
pioneering theatrical team, which saw actors and
writers work collectively to create theatrical texts
through workshops. The team was characterised
by its social and political concern, as well as bold
experimentation, both with form and theme.
Hare also served as a resident dramatist for the
Royal Court Theatre in London from 1970 until
1971, and for the Nottingham Playhouse in 1973,
while he has been a permanent contributor for the
National Theatre since 1984.
For his first major play, entitled
Slag
(1970), he re-
ceived the Evening Standard DramaAward.
Among others, he has composed the works
Knuckle
(1974, Mail on SundayAward/John Llewellyn Rhys
Prize),
Fanshen
(1975, based on the book by Wil-
liamHinton),
Teeth ‘n’Smiles
(1975),
Plenty
(1978),
Pravda: A Fleet Street Comedy
(1985, in coopera-
tion with Howard Brenton) and
The Secret Rapture
(1988). He also produced the trilogy
RacingDemon
(1990),
Murmuring Judges
(1991),
The Absence of
War
(1993) and the works
Skylight
(1995),
Amy’s
View
(1997) and
The Judas Kiss
(1998).
David Hare’s most recent plays include
My Zinc
Bed
(2000),
The Breath of Life
(2002),
The Perma-
nent Way
(2003),
Stuff Happens
(2004),
The Verti-
cal Hour
(2006),
Gethsemane
(2008),
The Power
of Yes
(2009), as well as the scripts for the mov-
ies
The Reader
, based on the novel by Bernhard
Schlink and
The Corrections
, from the novel by
Jonathan Franzen.
