David Hare — Playwright (10)
The Reader (2008) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Reader
7.5 (11 ratings) director: Stephen Daldry actor: Kate Winslet / Ralph Fiennes
other title: The Reader - A voce alta / O Leitor
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
The Hours (2002) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Hours
7.2 (9 ratings) director: Stephen Daldry actor: Julianne Moore / Nicole Kidman
other title: As Horas / The Hours - Von Ewigkeit zu Ewigkeit
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
Skylight [Performance] NeoDB Douban
Skylight
genre: theater playwright: David Hare / 王菀之(翻譯)
other title: 天色 theater: 香港演藝學院廖湯慧靄戲劇院 director: 司徒慧焯 actor: 謝君豪 / 王菀之 / 梁仲恆
故事發生在倫敦, Tom是一位事業有成的餐廳東主,而Kyra是一名教師。

Tom的妻子過世已經一年了,他對妻子的去世感到非常悲傷。Tom突然想起自己曾經的情人Kyra,她是一位年輕有為的女性,兩人曾經有過一段熱戀的關係。Tom追憶著他們之間的美好時光,於是他決定去找Kyra。

Kyra現在過著簡樸的生活,住在倫敦的一個小公寓裡。她仍然對Tom有著復雜的感覺,對於他的出現感到驚訝卻又不知所措。

隨著Tom和Kyra之間的對話展開,他們討論著過去的愛情、分手的原因,以及彼此的價值觀和生活觀。這場久違了的對話,讓他們重新評估彼此以及彼此對於愛情和幸福的看法,他們試圖彌補過去的錯誤和失去的愛情,卻面臨著彼此間社會階級和價值觀的衝突。故事以一場感人而挑戰傳統觀念的對話和情感交流為特色,深入探討了愛情、損失和個人成長等的主題。
Behind the Beautiful Forevers [Performance] Douban NeoDB
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
genre: theater playwright: Katherine Boo / David Hare
other title: 地下城 / 美好永远的背后 theater: National Theatre director: Rufus Norris actor: Stephanie Street / Meera Syal / Anjana Vasan
南亚大国印度正掀起一股轰轰烈烈的全球化浪潮。然而在该国最大城市孟买却呈现出了另外一番光景:客流如潮涌、一派繁忙景象的飞机场和周围鳞次栉比的高级饭店的远处掩藏着一个不起眼的贫民区¬¬¬——那儿的人们也同上流社会的精英一样对自己的人生有着诸多设想与规划:泽赫伦妮沙和她相依为命的儿子阿巴杜想要通过回收垃圾赚钱致富乔迁新居;年近五十、身材矮小的苏尼尔想填饱自己的肚子,可以长得能和小偷卡鲁一样人高马大;心比天高的阿莎为盗取当局的反贫困基金颇费思量,而她的女儿文珠则日日苦读,矢志做一只早日飞出鸡窝的金凤凰。但对于生活在底层的老百姓来说,这些脆弱的理想不过是梦幻泡影——全球范围内的经济衰退威胁到了垃圾贸易,另一方面,某个贫民窟居民打的一场官司将会毁掉左邻右舍们的翻身希望。 曾获普利策奖的美国女记者凯瑟琳•布深入孟买的阿纳瓦迪贫民区,花了三载光阴忠实记录下贫民们的日常生活,著成《美丽的永恒背后》一书,英国著名剧作家戴维•黑尔则进一步将之炮制成颇具史诗规模且充满着搔嚷与喧嚣的舞台戏剧作品。且看孟买国际机场书有“美丽永恒”四个大字的广告牌后正上演着一幕幕怎样的悲欢离合、人情冷暖。
Straight Line Crazy [Performance] Douban
Straight Line Crazy
genre: theater playwright: David Hare
other title: 直线偏执狂 theater: Bridge Theatre director: Nicholas Hytner actor: Alisha Bailey / Samuel Barnett / David Bromley / Al Coppola / Siobhán Cullen



Ralph Fiennes stars in David Hare’s blazing account of the life of a man whose iron will exposed the weakness of democracy in the face of charismatic conviction.

For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses was the most powerful man in New York. Though never elected to office, he manipulated those who were through a mix of guile, charm and intimidation.

Motivated at first by a determination to improve the lives of New York City’s workers, he created new parks, new bridges and 627 miles of expressway to connect the people to the great outdoors. But in the 1950s, groups of citizens at grass roots began to organize against his schemes and against the motor car, campaigning for a very different idea of what a city was and for what it should be.

The Red Barn [Performance] NeoDB Douban
The Red Barn
genre: theater playwright: David Hare
other title: 红谷仓 theater: National Theatre director: Robert Icke actor: 马克·斯特朗 / Hope Davis / 伊丽莎白·德比茨基 / Stuart Milligan / Oliver Alvin-Wilson



Connecticut, 1969.

On their way back from a party, two couples struggle home through the snow. Not everyone arrives safely...

A new play by David Hare
based on the novel, La Main, by Georges Simenon.

Denial (2016) [Movie] TMDB
Denial
director: Mick Jackson actor: Rachel Weisz / Tom Wilkinson
other title: La verità negata / Negação
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
Turks & Caicos (2014) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Turks & Caicos
director: David Hare actor: Bill Nighy / Christopher Walken
other title: Turcas e Caicos / Die Verschwörung - Tödliche Geschäfte
The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new life. He is hiding out in Ray-Bans on the Caribbean islands of the title, eating lobster and calling himself Tom Eliot (he’s a poet at heart). We’re drawn into his world and his predicament when Christopher Walken strolls in as a shadowy American who claims to know Johnny. The encounter forces him into the company of some ambiguous American businessmen who claim to be on the islands for a conference on the global financial crisis. When one of them falls in the sea, their financial PR seems to know more than she's letting on. Worricker soon learns the extent of their shady activities and he must act quickly to survive when links to British prime minister Alec Beasley come to light.
Salting the Battlefield (2014) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Salting the Battlefield
director: David Hare actor: Bill Nighy / Helena Bonham Carter
other title: In guerra tutto è concesso / Salgando o Campo de Batalha
David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. Johnny Worricker goes on the run with Margot Tyrell across Europe, and with the net closing in, the former MI5 man knows his only chance of resolving his problems is to return home and confront prime minister Alec Beasley.