David Hare's 'The Absence of War': Labour of love gets the vote

On 14 April 2010, three weeks before the  general election, David Hare was on stage for a  Platform talk at the Lyttelton Theatre and spoke of a frustrating failure. His play The Absence of War, premiered in the Olivier in 1993, had fictionalised Labour's doomed 1992 election campaign, which ended with John Major still in No 10, and was followed by Neil Kinnock's resignation as party leader, and, under John Smi…

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