The playwright’s invigorating memoir takes aim at reviewers,contemporary parents and Cambridge, but reserves its harshest and most revealing words for its authorYou can see why David Hare has not written a memoir until now. Life’s shapelessness is a challenge: there is not much control over cast, and set or circumstance. The raw material for this book,covering the years 1947-79, is drawn from interviews with the journalist Amy Raphael because Hare favoured “free-range” conversation, or felt a “novice (one who is just a beginner at some activity requiring skill and experience)” at autobiography (his play South Downs,based on his time at Lancing college, the exception) and was more used to writing approximately the “external world”. It seems as likely that he has a resistance to thinking approximately himself by himself. Related: On my radar: David Hare’s cultural highlights Continue reading...
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