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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.
Performers Ralph Fiennes.
Author David Hare. Director Nicholas Hytner. Design Bunny Christie. Lighting Jon Clark. Sound Gareth Fry. Music George Fenton. Other Sophie Johnston (researcher).