Skylight
Skylight
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Published:
19 June, 2014
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Description
He's not like what you'd call rational-articulate. He doesn't want argument. For Christ's sake, Kyra, you teach. Language belongs to the past. This is the world of Super Mario. Bang! Splat! Spit out your venom and go. It's not like, you know . . . when we were together. You and me talking. Talking down the stars from the sky.
Skylight premiered at the National Theatre, London, 1995. It won an Olivier Award for Play of the Year; and an Evening Standard Award for Revival of the Year, 2014.
'There are times in the theatre when you suddenly find yourself in the grip of silence. There is no fidgeting or coughing, no shifting about in seats: the audience's attention is so tense it is almost palpable. This is because it is both thrilling and dangerous: a fight to the death, or the dawning of salvation. David Hare's Skylight is punctuated by such moments. They are the signs that a dramatist of the first rank is writing at full stretch, in complete command of his material, undogmatic and unafraid, unforgiving and compassionate.' Sunday Times
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780571321131 |
| ISBN10 | 0571321135 |
| Number Of Pages | 112 |
| Item Weight | 100 g |
| Product Dimensions | 130 x 195 x 10 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Faber & Faber |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | Main - Re-issue |
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Author's Bio
David Hare's first full-length play was produced in 1970. Since then he has written over thirty stage plays and thirty screenplays for film and television. The plays include Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton), Racing Demon, Amy's View, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, The Absence of War, The Judas Kiss, The Red Barn, and Straight Line Crazy. For cinema, he has written The Hours and The Reader, among others. In a millennial poll of the Greatest Plays of the Twentieth Century, five of the top hundred were his.