num_pages: 128
description: The Vertical Hour by David Hare is a new play from one of Britain's most significant contemporary playwrights..Nadia Blye is a young American war reporter turned academic who teaches Political Studies at Yale. A brief holiday with her boyfriend brings her into contact with a kind of Englishman whose culture and background is a surprise and a challenge, both to her and to her relationship. For thirty five years, David Hare has written plays which catch the flavour of our times, the interconnection between our secret motives and our public politics. Now, at last, he writes about an American, seeking to illustrate how life has subtly changed for so many people in the West in the new century.The Vertical Hour received its world premiere at the Music Box Theater, Broadway, on November 30, 2006, and received its UK premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 17 January 2008.
language: English
title: The Vertical Hour
titlecomplete: The Vertical Hour
genres: Plays, Drama, Theatre
ratings_count: 146
publisher: Faber and Faber