In the 1970s the young English, socialist playwright David Hare (now Sir David Hare) was a favourite of many actors and writers at the Australian Performing Group. In November 1978 a lecture that Hare delivered to King’s College, Cambridge, was published in the London Sunday Times under the title “The Playwright as Historian”. The APG published extracts from Hare’s lecture in their newsletter, “The Perambulator”, in April 1979. A copy of those extracts is the subject of this post.
Notes:
- The extracts published in the APG’s version (below) appear to be less than half of the full lecture by David Hare
- David Hare’s lecture was also published as an addendum to his book/play/TV script “Licking Hitler”,as well as in his book, “Writing Left-Handed”, under the new title, “The Play is in the Air: On Political Theatre”.
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