Beat the Devil: A Covid Monologue

by David Hare

Overview

Covid-19 seems to be a sort of dirty bomb, thrown into the body to cause havoc.

On the same day that the UK government finally made the first of two decisive interventions that led to a conspicuously late lockdown, David Hare contracted Covid-19. Nobody seemed to know much about it then, and many doctors are not altogether sure they know much more today. Suffering a pageant of apparently random symptoms, Hare recalls the delirium of his illness, which mixed with fear, dream, honest medicine and dishonest politics to create a monologue of furious urgency and power.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780571366095
Publisher:	Faber and Faber
Publication date:	08/28/2020
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	102 KB

About the Author

David Hare's first full-length play was produced in 1970. Since then he has written over thirty stage plays and thirty screenplays for film and television. In a millennial poll of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, five of the top hundred were his.
Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton), The Secret Rapture, Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, The Blue Room, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, The Absence of War, The Judas Kiss, The Red Barn, The Moderate Soprano, I'm Not Running and Beat the Devil. For cinema, he has written The Hours, The Reader, Damage, Denial, Wetherby and The White Crow among others, while his television films include Licking Hitler, the Worricker Trilogy, Collateral and Roadkill. In a millennial poll of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, five of the top hundred were his.