David Hare is the most eminent British dramatist of the generation that includes the man we have to learn to call King Charles III. And his plays have a pretty dazzling variety from Plenty (the bewilderment of a play that runs backwards and was filmed with Meryl Streep by Fred Schepisi) through the evocations of church shenanigans in Racing Demon to a towering depiction of a tyrannical newspaper tycoon in Pravda.
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