Beat the Devil
T367275535
Covid-19 seems to be a sort of dirty bomb, thrown into the body to cause havoc. On the same day that the UK government finally made the first of two decisive interventions that led to a conspicuously late lockdown, David Hare contracted Covid-19. Nobody seemed to know much about it then, and many doctors are not altogether sure they know much more today. Suffering a pageant of apparently random symptoms, Hare recalls the delirium of his illness, which mixed with fear, dream, honest medicine and dishonest politics to create a monologue of furious urgency and power.
Archive :: production:T367275535, play:S0654799610, venue:V01649084045
Production Changes
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- 13 Nov 19
- D:Bryony Lavery, I:Nicholas Hytner, S:Bob Crowley, I:Barnaby Dixon (puppetry), S:Luke Halls (video), L:Bruno Poet, U:Paul Arditti, M:Grant Olding
