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David Rippon Hare

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David Rippon Hare

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1947-06-05 (St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, Sussex, England)
国籍
British
言語
English
居住地歴
Bexhill-on-Sea (raised) → London (professional base)

経歴

職業
playwright, screenwriter, director
活動期間
1968年〜
所属
Royal National Theatre (Associate Director), Royal Society of Literature (Fellow)
所属団体
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
ノミネート
Tony Award (Best Play) – Plenty (1983), Tony Award (Best Play) – Racing Demon (1996), Tony Award (Best Play) – Skylight (1997)

学歴

Lancing College
期間: 1950s–1960s(中等教育)
国: United Kingdom
Attended independent school in Sussex
Jesus College, Cambridge
English Literature
学位: MA (Cantab.)
期間: 1960s
国: United Kingdom
Studied English Literature at Cambridge; active in university drama

受賞歴

Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play
1990
対象作品: Racing Demon
部門: Best New Play
主催: Laurence Olivier Awards (Society of London Theatre)
結果: winner
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play
1996
対象作品: Skylight
部門: Best New Play
主催: Laurence Olivier Awards (Society of London Theatre)
結果: winner
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
2003
対象作品: The Hours (screenplay)
部門: Best Adapted Screenplay
主催: Writers Guild of America
結果: winner
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
2003
対象作品: The Hours
部門: Best Adapted Screenplay
主催: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
結果: nominee
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
2009
対象作品: The Reader
部門: Best Adapted Screenplay
主催: Academy
結果: nominee
Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear
1985
主催: Berlin International Film Festival
結果: winner
Knight Bachelor
1998
主催: Queen's Birthday Honours
結果: knighted
BAFTA Award
1979
主催: British Academy of Film and Television Arts
結果: winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Plenty

1978年 Theatre (drama)

A play about postwar Britain and changing expectations; adapted into a 1985 film.

postwar transitionsocial expectationpersonal disappointment
映像化・舞台化
  • [film] Plenty (film) / Fred Schepisi (1985)

Racing Demon

1990年 Theatre (political/social drama)

Part of a trilogy about British institutions, focusing on the Church of England and institutional conflict.

religion and institutionsethicsreform

Skylight

1995年 Theatre (intimate drama)

A two-character play about an unexpected reunion that examines values and social position.

love and regretsocial classmoral conflict

The Hours (screenplay)

2002年 Film (screenplay/adaptation)

Screenplay adapted from Michael Cunningham's novel, interweaving the lives of three women.

timeless lonelinesscreativity and sacrifice

The Reader

2008年 Film (screenplay/adaptation)

Adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's novel dealing with postwar Germany and questions of guilt.

guilt and atonementmemory and morality

全著作

  • Writing Left-Handed (essays)
  • The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir (2015)
  • We Travelled: Essays and Poems (2021)

翻案

  • Plenty → film (1985)
  • The Hours → film (2002, screenplay)
  • The Reader → film (2008, screenplay)

作家による翻訳

  • Translation of Mother Courage and Her Children (Bertolt Brecht, 1995)

作風・主題

文体
incisive social and political commentaryrealistic yet polemical contemporary dramadialogue-driven, direct theatrical language
頻出モチーフ
public institutions and their flawspower and responsibilityindividual vs society

健康

  • COVID-19
    2020
    Contracted COVID-19 in 2020; the experience informed the monologue 'Beat the Devil'

評価・遺産

David Hare is one of the leading postwar and contemporary British playwrights and screenwriters, known for incisive works about public institutions and power. He has received international recognition across theatre, film and television.

関連学会

  • Royal Society of Literature (Fellow)

資料所蔵先

  • David Hare Papers at the Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas at Austin)

大衆文化への影響

  • Stage works adapted to film and performed by notable actors (e.g., Meryl Streep in the film Plenty)

引用

  • I am interested in the struggle to make procedures work better — right now — not in waiting until some revolution comes along to raze the current system and replace it with perfection.
    出典: Interview / critical commentary (excerpt)

豆知識

  • Sold his archive to the Harry Ransom Center in 1993.
  • Was knighted in 1998 for services to theatre.
  • First married Margaret Matheson (three children); married Nicole Farhi in 1992.