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Amy's View: A Play

Amy's View: A Play

by David Hare (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

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    Paperback 1997

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Synopsis

It is 1979. Esme Allen is a well-known West End actress at just the moment when the West End is ceasing to offer actors a regular way of life. The visit of her young daughter, Amy, with a new boyfriend sets in train a series of events which only find their shape eighteen years later. A generational play about the long term struggle between a strong mother and her loving daughter, "Amy's View" mixes love, death and the theatre in a way which is both heady and original.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 96
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 23 Jun 1997
ISBN 10: 0571191797
ISBN 13: 9780571191796
Book Overview: Amy's View by David Hare is a generational play about the long-term struggle between a strong mother and her loving daughter, mixing love, death and the theatre in a way which is both heady and original.

Media Reviews
David Hare's masterpiece. -- Daily Mail
A diffuse, incisive, funny, moving, difficult, fascinating play...A major dramatist has written a strong, rich play. -- The Times
Above all else, Amy's View offers the sheer exhilaration of watching a major dramatist writing for the theatre he loves at the very height of his powers. -- Daily Express

David Hare's masterpiece. -- Daily Mail

A diffuse, incisive, funny, moving, difficult, fascinating play...A major dramatist has written a strong, rich play. -- The Times

Above all else, Amy's View offers the sheer exhilaration of watching a major dramatist writing for the theatre he loves at the very height of his powers. -- Daily Express

David Hare's masterpiece. -- Daily Mail
A diffuse, incisive, funny, moving, difficult, fascinating play...A major dramatist has written a strong, rich play. -- The Times
Above all else, Amy's View offers the sheer exhilaration of watching a major dramatist writing for the theatre he loves at the very height of his powers. -- Daily Express

David Hare's masterpiece. Daily Mail

A diffuse, incisive, funny, moving, difficult, fascinating play...A major dramatist has written a strong, rich play. The Times

Above all else, Amy's View offers the sheer exhilaration of watching a major dramatist writing for the theatre he loves at the very height of his powers. Daily Express


David Hare's masterpiece. --Daily Mail

A diffuse, incisive, funny, moving, difficult, fascinating play...A major dramatist has written a strong, rich play. --The Times

Above all else, Amy's View offers the sheer exhilaration of watching a major dramatist writing for the theatre he loves at the very height of his powers. --Daily Express

Author Bio
David Hare is a playwright and filmmaker. His stage plays include Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton) Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, South Downs, The Absence of War and The Judas Kiss. His films for cinema and television include Wetherby, The Hours, Damage, The Reader and the Worricker trilogy: Page Eight, Turks & Caicos and Salting the Battlefield. He has written English adaptations of plays by Pirandello, Chekhov, Brecht, Schnitzler, Lorca, Gorky and Ibsen. For fifteen years he was an Associate Director of the National Theatre.