The Vertical Hour
- By:
- David Hare
- Management:
- Royal Court Theatre
- Cast:
- Indira Varma, Joseph Kloska, Anton Lesser, Wunmi Mosaku, Tom Riley
- Director:
- Jeremy Herrin
- Design:
- Mike Britton
- Sound:
- Nick Powell
- Lighting:
- Howard Harrison
Production information can change over the run of the show.
David Hare's new play deals with ancient hatreds, between Muslims and Christians in the Balkans, fathers and sons in rural Shropshire and between conflicting political ideologies. The war in Iraq takes centre stage once again. Former war reporter and Yale politics professor Nadia is a convinced interventionist: she hates soggy liberals and cultural relativists. She argues that when people are dying, we have to act. Her boyfriend's father is a doctor who sees death close-up. As a sixties liberal, thousands of dead Iraqis tell him war is wrong...
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