David Hare wrote political plays. In the 1990s he completed a panoramic trilogy surveying the contemporary state of British institutions – the Anglican Church (‘Racing Demon’, 1990), the police and the judiciary (‘Murmuring Judges’, 1991), and the Labour Party (‘The Absence of War’, 1993).
Alan Bennett excelled in both stage and television drama. His first work, ‘Forty Years On’, was an expansive, mocking, and nostalgic cabaret of cultural and social change in England between and during the two world wars. His masterpieces, though, are dramatic monologues written for television – ‘A Woman of No Importance’ and six works he called ‘Talking Heads’. In these television plays Bennett’s comic genius for capturing the rich waywardness of everyday speech combines with psychological acuteness, emotional delicacy, and a melancholy consciousness of life’s transience. The result is a drama, simultaneously hilarious and sad, of exceptional distinction.
Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
