Name: Straight Line Crazy
ISBN: 9780571363049

Straight Line Crazy

David Hare

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For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses was the most powerful man in New York. Though never elected to office, he manipulated those who were through a mix of guile, charm and intimidation. Motivated at first by a determination to improve the lives of New York City's workers, he created parks, bridges and 627 miles of expressway to connect the people to the great outdoors. But in the 1950s, groups of citizens began to organize against his schemes and against the motor car, campaigning for a very different idea of what a city should be. David Hare's blazing account of a man - played by Ralph Fiennes - whose iron will exposed the weakness of democracy in the face of charismatic conviction, premieres at the Bridge Theatre, London, in March 2022.

Book Details

Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publish Date: Sep 20th, 2022
Pages: 144
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.70in - 5.00in - 0.50in - 0.35lb
EAN: 9780571363049
Categories: • European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

About the Author

Hare, David: - David Hare has written over thirty stage plays and thirty 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, The Moderate Soprano, I'm Not Running, Beat the Devil and Straight Line Crazy. 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, Collateral and Roadkill. We Travelled, a new collection of essays and poems, was published in 2021. In a millennial poll of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, five of the top hundred were his.

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What people are saying

Joyce Carol Oates

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Joyce Carol Oates is an author.

Exciting to be at David Hare’s new play “Straight Line Crazy” at The Shed at Hudson Yards https://t.co/HZZHy1hsLF

McKayla & @feliciapgordon fan account. @TheaterMania/Outer Critics Circle. “Mean Man” to some, “Self-Anointed Elitist Idiot” to others.

David Hare clearly got the idea for Straight Line Crazy when he was caught in traffic going across town, and as someone who is routinely stuck on the Cross Island leading up to the one-lane Throgs Neck Bridge when I live one exit past it, I can safely say, Fuck Robert Moses.

Chief theater critic for The New York Times

In David Hare's "Straight Line Crazy," Ralph Fiennes gives a great performance in search of a great play. My @nytimestheater review: https://t.co/27i3JQfLZL

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"Dynamic, ideas-driven dialogue ... makes the play crackle." -- Guardian

What people are saying

Joyce Carol Oates

@JoyceCarolOates

2 years

Joyce Carol Oates is an author.

Exciting to be at David Hare’s new play “Straight Line Crazy” at The Shed at Hudson Yards https://t.co/HZZHy1hsLF

McKayla & @feliciapgordon fan account. @TheaterMania/Outer Critics Circle. “Mean Man” to some, “Self-Anointed Elitist Idiot” to others.

twitter.com