Skylight: A Play

By David Hare

Book Overview

Skylight premiered at the National Theatre in 1995 and then went on to become one of the most internationally successful plays of recent years. This is the definitive edition of Skylight . This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571176127
• ISBN13: 9780571176120
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.3" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

A new direction for David Hare, and a marvelous success.

After writing "The Secret Rapture," his indictment of complacency in Thatcherite Britain, and his trilogy of plays on British institutions, David Hare understandably needed a break from writing political theatre. His next play, "Skylight," defied expectations and marked a new phase in Hare's career. Unlike the political plays that precede it, "Skylight" is, to use its author's terminology, a Jim and Tim play: two main characters discuss their lives, their feelings and their relationships, and if any broad themes are to be gleaned it is the role of the viewer and not the playwright. Hare's play is a standalone masterpiece of chamber theatre, and, when compared with his other work, it is even more astounding.