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The Secret Rapture and Other Plays - cover

The Secret Rapture and Other Plays

David Hare

Publisher: Grove Press

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Summary

A collection of five plays from the Tony Award–winning playwright and screenwriter, “the premiere political dramatist writing in English” (The Washington Post).   David Hare, “Britain’s leading contemporary playwright,” has established a unique reputation for plays that are at once personal and political, deeply serious and incredibly funny (The Times). He is the author of seventeen plays, many of which have been presented on Broadway. Included in this collection are Fanshen; A Map of the World; Saigon: Year of the Cat; The Bay at Nice; and The Secret Rapture. Of the title play, Frank Rich of The New York Times said, “The Secret Rapture has gone further than before in marrying political thought to the compelling drama of lives that refuse to conform to any ideology’s utopian plan . . . Mr. Hare embraces the human, messy though it may be.”  Praise for David Hare  Fanshen   “The nearest any English contemporary writer has come to emulating Brecht.” —Financial Times  A Map of the World   “Mr. Hare’s A Map of the World, which passionately embraces utopia without arrogantly presuming to annex it, is original and provocative.” —The New York Times  Saigon   “An impressive new film which vividly captures the last desperate days in Vietnam as the Reds laid siege to the sweltering city.” —Daily Express  The Bay at Nice   “Witty, cerebral, and full of fine-spun ironies.” —The Guardian  The Secret Rapture   “His writing, as always, is smart, and this time, glorious. The characters are unhackneyed and complex; the insights are tough and hard to ignore.” —New York Newsday
Available since: 12/01/2007.
Print length: 516 pages.

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