Editing David Hare (playwright) (section)

=== 1980s ===
Hare founded a film company called Greenpoint Films in 1982, and among screenplays he has written are ''Plenty'', ''Wetherby'', ''Strapless'', and ''Paris by Night''. In 1983, his play ''A Map of the World'' was produced at the [[Royal National Theatre]]. The production starred [[Bill Nighy]], [[Diana Quick]], and [[Ronald Hines]]. The play is set at the [[UNESCO|Unesco conference]] on poverty held in [[Bombay]] in 1978. It transferred to [[The Public Theatre]] in 1985, starring [[Alfre Woodard]], [[Elizabeth McGovern]], and [[Zeljko Ivanek]]. In a mixed review, ''[[The New York Times]]'' theatre critic [[Frank Rich]] wrote: "The play is in part about conflicting points of view – about how reactionaries and leftists look at geopolitics, how journalists and novelists look at events and how the West and the Third World look at each other."<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/02/theater/theater-a-map-of-the-world-by-david-hare.html|title= THEATER: 'A MAP OF THE WORLD,' BY DAVID HARE|website= [[The New York Times]]|date= 2 October 1985|access-date= July 2, 2022|last1= Rich|first1= Frank}}</ref>

In 1985, Hare wrote ''[[Pravda (play)|Pravda]]'' with [[Howard Brenton]], its title referring to the [[History of communism in the Soviet Union|Russian Communist]] party newspaper ''[[Pravda]]''. The play, a satire on the mid-1980s newspaper industry, in particular the Australian media and press baron [[Rupert Murdoch]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/plays/pravda-iid-132577|title=Pravda - Drama Online|website=www.dramaonlinelibrary.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2013/45/the-national-theatre-at-50-pravda|title=BBC - The National Theatre At 50: Pravda |website= Media Centre|publisher=BBC}}</ref> stars [[Anthony Hopkins]] in a role that earned him the [[Laurence Olivier Award]]. Hare became the associate director of the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] in 1984, and has since seen many of his plays produced, including his trilogy about major British institutions: ''[[Racing Demon (play)|Racing Demon]]'', ''[[Murmuring Judges]]'', and ''[[The Absence of War]]''. He has also directed many other plays aside from his own works, notable examples being ''The Pleasure Principle'' by [[Snoo Wilson]], ''[[Weapons of Happiness]]'' by Howard Brenton, and ''[[King Lear]]'' by [[William Shakespeare]] for the National Theatre. Hare is also the author of a collection of lectures on the arts and politics called ''Obedience, Struggle, and Revolt'' (2005).<ref>[http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth253 "David Hare"], ''Contemporary Writers'', [[British Council]]. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001174915/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth253 |date=1 October 2007 }}.</ref>