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A compelling work of documentary drama from Britain's "greatest living political playwright" (New Statesman).
In a last-ditch attempt to swing an election that they didn't expect to win, Britain's Conservative Party government made the fateful decision to privatize the country's railway system. Twelve years later, the results of that choice are disturbingly clear: unpredictable schedules, hemorrhaging costs, and the fateful deaths of several passengers after a succession of disastrous crashes. In this classic achievement of Brechtian, agit-prop theatrics, award-winning playwright David Hare gathers together the first-hand accounts of those most intimately involved--from every level of the system. The result is a fascinating parable described byGuardian theater critic Michael Billington as a "dazzling oral mosaic" and a "vitally necessary piece of theatre" which poses a compelling metaphor for the state of the world at large.
In a last-ditch attempt to swing an election that they didn't expect to win, Britain's Conservative Party government made the fateful decision to privatize the country's railway system. Twelve years later, the results of that choice are disturbingly clear: unpredictable schedules, hemorrhaging costs, and the fateful deaths of several passengers after a succession of disastrous crashes. In this classic achievement of Brechtian, agit-prop theatrics, award-winning playwright David Hare gathers together the first-hand accounts of those most intimately involved--from every level of the system. The result is a fascinating parable described byGuardian theater critic Michael Billington as a "dazzling oral mosaic" and a "vitally necessary piece of theatre" which poses a compelling metaphor for the state of the world at large.
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David Hare is a playwright and filmmaker. His stage plays include Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton) Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, South Downs, The Absence of War and The Judas Kiss. His films for cinema and television include Wetherby, The Hours, Damage, The Reader and the Worricker trilogy: Page Eight, Turks & Caicos and Salting the Battlefield. He has written English adaptations of plays by Pirandello, Chekhov, Brecht, Schnitzler, Lorca, Gorky and Ibsen. For fifteen years he was an Associate Director of the National Theatre.
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"A compelling, fast-moving, and astringently witty collage of . . . vivid, eloquently juxtaposed vignettes . . . [The Permanent Way] manages to make its devastating case without piety or smug hindsight." --Paul Taylor, The Independent (London)
"David Hare's brilliant docudrama about the state of Britain's railways . . . provides a gripping account of what has gone wrong since privatization . . . [The Permanent Way] captures the greedy, shoddy spirit of our times with devastating clarity, but its portrait of individuals, particularly the survivors of rail crashes and those left bereaved by them, is . . . deeply moving." --Charles Spencer, The Daily Telegraph (London)
"Fascinating and affecting . . . The Permanent Way is . . . animated journalism, and riveting as such." --Alastair Macaulay, The Financial Times (London)
"David Hare's brilliant docudrama about the state of Britain's railways . . . provides a gripping account of what has gone wrong since privatization . . . [The Permanent Way] captures the greedy, shoddy spirit of our times with devastating clarity, but its portrait of individuals, particularly the survivors of rail crashes and those left bereaved by them, is . . . deeply moving." --Charles Spencer, The Daily Telegraph (London)
"Fascinating and affecting . . . The Permanent Way is . . . animated journalism, and riveting as such." --Alastair Macaulay, The Financial Times (London)
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