- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Faber And Faber Ltd. (Oct 1 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0571191797
- ISBN-13: 978-0571191796
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.7 x 1.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 118 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #815,213 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Review
David Hare's masterpiece."--Daily Mail
"A diffuse, incisive, funny, moving, difficult, fascinating play...A major dramatist has written a strong, rich play."--The Times
"Above all else, Amy's View offers the sheer exhilaration of watching a major dramatist writing for the theatre he loves at the very height of his powers."--Daily Express
"A diffuse, incisive, funny, moving, difficult, fascinating play...A major dramatist has written a strong, rich play."--The Times
"Above all else, Amy's View offers the sheer exhilaration of watching a major dramatist writing for the theatre he loves at the very height of his powers."--Daily Express
Book Description
Presented on Broadway in the spring of 1999 with Dame Judi Dench in the pivotal role, Amy's View is a generational play about the long-term struggle between a strong mother and her loving daughter, mixing love, death, and the theater in a way that is both heady and original.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
David Hare's second--and best--Jim and Tim play.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Amys View (Paperback)
Hare refers to the chamber pieces written after his monumental trilogy as "Jim and Tim" plays--theatre with few techincal marvels, conflicts based on personal relationships and not external struggles, and, most importantly, a sense of character specificity not found in the archetypes of Susan Traherne and Isobel Glass. "Amy's View" is his second of these smaller plays, and it is the best of the three he has written so far. As in his first Jim and Tim play, "Skylight", the characters are not politicians and public figures but ordinary Britons with neighbors, lovers and family. But unlike "Skylight", which examined only one theme, "Amy's View" uses its smallness to raise big issues. The piece is a play about grief and happiness, familial relations, and the price of compassion. It's about the role of the theatre, both as an artform and in modern life. It's about having money and not wanting it, wanting money and not having it, and the ultimate inability to know your life. And, of course, the play resonates with Hare's exquisite dialogue, making "Amy's View" a masterpiece of langauge and well as of stagecraft. It is without question Hare's greatest chamber play, and in parts it even reaches the heights of his two seminal works, "Plenty" and "The Secret Rapture".
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love, betrayal, and the theatre all come together,
This review is from: Amys View (Paperback)
David Hare's Amy's View is a startling new play. Rich, funny, sad, absurd, and thought-provoking, Amy's View leaves the reader or audience member clamoring for more. Hare presents fascinating characters in Esme Allen, a famous West End actress; her daughter Amy, who's famous "view" is that love conquers all; her boyfriend and soon to be husband Dominic, a cultural monolith; and Frank, a devoted companion of Esme's who's actions have devastating consequences in all of their lives. This play meshes love and betrayal with the question of whether the theatre is relevant in society anymore. The reader will be astonished. But being lucky enough to see this play performed on Broadway with Judi Dench as Esme, I love this play that much more.
5.0 out of 5 stars
David Hare gives us yet another unforgettable female.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Amys View (Paperback)
David Hare gives us yet another unforgettable character in Esme Allen. She reminds us that we must hold on to our ideals bravely as we could be stripped of them at anytime. A great play.
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