The Vertical Hour
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 30, 2006
Closed Mar 11, 2007
Opened Nov 30, 2006
Closed Mar 11, 2007
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Julianne Moore stars in the world premiere of David Hare's new play The Vertical Hour, directed by Sam Mendes. Nadia Blye is a young American war correspondent turned academic who now teaches Political Studies at Yale. A brief holiday with her boyfriend in the Welsh borders brings her into contact with a kind of Englishman whose culture and beliefs are a surprise and a challenge, both to her and to her relationship.
David Hare's new play, about the interconnection between our secret motives and our public politics, seeks to illustrate how life has subtly changed for so many people in the West in the new century.
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Music Box Theater
239 W 45th St
New York, NY 10036
This theater was built in 1921 for the sole purpose of producing the works of Irving Berlin. He eventually learned to share this wonderful space with other New York artists. Some of the shows produced here include Once in a Lifetime, Dinner at Eigh [...] Read More
239 W 45th St
New York, NY 10036
This theater was built in 1921 for the sole purpose of producing the works of Irving Berlin. He eventually learned to share this wonderful space with other New York artists. Some of the shows produced here include Once in a Lifetime, Dinner at Eigh [...] Read More
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David Hare has a reason for calling his newest play
The Vertical Hour. It's explained during the fourth of the work's five scenes, when the central character, Nadia Blye (Julianne Moore) an American foreign correspondent turned political-science professor, says to her British host, Oliver Lucas (Bill Nighy): "In combat medicine, there's this moment...after a disaster, after a shooting-there's this moment, the vertical hour, when you can actually be of some use."
That's the expressed reason for the title. Perhaps the unspoken explanation is that Hare's first act could just as well be called The Horizontal Hour. It's about that long and that flat. It's only in the second half, when the pr[...]