Plenty

by David Hare

Book Overview

After opening to sometimes bewildered reviews at the National Theatre in 1978, David Hare's wildly ambitious play Plenty established itself as a landmark modern classic in its 1982 New York... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000BP322M
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Nelson Doubleday
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Plenty is David Hare's masterwork.

Every scene of this play ends with Susan's making some sort of decision that may or may not have been the right thing to do. That Hare offers no judgment for the heroine of his play is a testament to the piece's maturity and multi-faceted nature. Susan is a character that we can and cannot relate to, that we do and do not sympathize with, and at the end of the piece we might have come to no conclusion on what sort of person she is. What we have learned, however, is how idealism in a post-war society is not only dangerous but absurd.