I'm Not Running (Faber Drama) - Softcover

Hare, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571345808 ISBN 13: 9780571345809

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2018

Synopsis

Should I run? This is the question Pauline Gibson is asking herself. She has spent her adult life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a campaign for local health provision. When she crosses paths with her old boyfriend, Jack Gould, who has made his way in Labour party politics, she's faced with an agonising decision.

What's involved in sacrificing your private life and your peace of mind for something more than a single issue? Does she dare?

David Hare was recently described by the Washington Post as 'the premiere political dramatist writing in English.' His explosive new play portrays the history of a twenty year intimate friendship and its public repercussions.

David Hare's new play I'm not Running, premieres at the National Theatre, London, in October 2018.

About this title

Review:

David Hare's Labour play hits political bullseyes . . . packed with sharp and witty apercus and highly quotable lines. -- Michael Billington, Guardian

Absorbing. A passionate, fluent production., Independent

About the Author:

David Hare's first full-length play was produced in 1970. Since then he has written over thirty stage plays and twenty-five screenplays for film and television. The plays include Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton), The Secret Rapture, Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, The Blue Room, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, The Absence of War, The Judas Kiss, The Red Barn and The Moderate Soprano. For cinema, he has written The Hours, The Reader, Damage, Denial, Wetherby and The White Crow among others, while his television films include Licking Hitler, the Worricker Trilogy (Page Eight, Turks & Caicos, and Salting the Battlefield) and Collateral. In a millennial poll of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, five of the top hundred were his.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0571345808
• ISBN 13: 9780571345809
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144