Hare, David

Hare, David (b. 1947), playwright. The British author of many sociopolitical plays, Hare was produced in New York perhaps more than any other English playwright during the last three decades of the 20th century. In the 1998–1999 season alone, he had three new productions in Manhattan, each of them a hit. Hare was born in St. Leonard's and educated at Lansing College and Cambridge. His first play to be produced in the States was Slag (1971), followed by Plenty (1982), A Map of the World (1985), The Secret Rapture (1989), Racing Demon (1995), Skylight (1996), The Judas Kiss (1998), The Blue Room (1998), Via Dolorosa (1999), and Amy's View (1999).

Quotes:

"No one but a fool is always right."

"Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together."

"Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth."

"To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin."

"Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides."

"The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry."

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