Straight Line Crazy (ePub)
Motivated at first by a determination to improve the lives of...
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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.
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.
- Autor: David Hare
- 2022, Main, 96 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Faber & Faber
- ISBN-10: 0571363059
- ISBN-13: 9780571363056
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.03.2022
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