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I don't see the theater as an establishment. The National Theatre has always seemed to me a people's theater. It was never meant to reinforce the values of the government of the day, nor does it, nor should it.
David Hare
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David Hare
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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St Leonards
East Sussex
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