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Summary. PDF Cite Share. Act I, Scene iThe Secret Rapture begins in near darkness. Isobel Glass is seated quietly next to the deathbed of her father, Robert Glass, who died only a few hours before ...
The Secret Rapture is a 1988 British play by David Hare. Its premiere in the Lyttelton auditorium of the Royal National Theatre was directed by Howard Davies. [1] [2] British revivals of the play have included one at the Salisbury Playhouse in 2001 [3] and at the Lyric Theatre, London in 2003. [4] Hare later adapted it as 1993 film of the same ...
- David Hare
- English
- 1988
- 1980s Britain
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The Secret Rapture is a family play; it is also the first major play to judge the England of the 1980s in terms that are both human and humane.” In the Observer, Michael Ratcliffe observed, “Hare’s painful, witty, and moving new play The Secret Rapture is a morality of modern behavior in which the people who have all the answers face, buy ...
Gentle Isobel happily runs a small graphics design business with her husband until her sister Marion and her father's young widow Katherine demand to be taken into the company. Katherine is a destructive drunk and Marion is a Tory M.P. with the heart of a computer. Isobel accepts capital to expand and her business becomes high tech and impersonal.
Feb 24, 2020 · I recall The Secret Rapture having enough moral dilemma and ambiguity about Thatcherism to keep the thought and concentration going throughout the play and for some time afterwards too. A synopsis can be found by clicking here. They made a movie of this play a few years later…mostly different cast…
The Secret Rapture. It is a given that Shakespeare's plays are set in another, long gone time. It comes as more of a surprise to find that a play written and set only fifteen years ago must now be seen as a historical document. Guy Retallack's revival of this overt attack on the evils of Thatcherism tries manfully to overcome a series of ...
In an article he wrote for the Listener just before The Secret Rapture opened in London in October 1988, David Hare revealed the source of the play's curious title. "In Catholic theology," the playwright explained, "the 'secret rapture' is the moment when the nun will become the bride of Christ: so it means death, or love of death, or death under life."
