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Murmuring Judges
Murmuring Judges by David Hare follows a young lawyer’s involvement in a criminal justice system – police, courts and prisons – which is cracking at the seams.
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A young lawyer’s involvement in her first case leads her through a criminal justice system – police, courts and prisons – which is cracking at the seams.
Murmuring Judges is the second play in David Hare’s highly acclaimed trilogy about British institutions. Racing Demon, which won four awards as Play of the Year in 1990, was the first part of the trilogy and examined the Church. The Absence of War, a play about the Labour Party, completed the trilogy.
David Hare has written over thirty stage plays and thirty screenplays for film and television. The plays include Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton), The Secret Rapture, Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy’s View, The Blue Room, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, The Absence of War, The Judas Kiss, The Red Barn, The Moderate Soprano, I’m Not Running and Beat the Devil. For cinema, he has written The Hours, The Reader, Damage, Denial, Wetherby and The White Crow among others, while his television…
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