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"Politics is about the reconciliation of the irreconcilable," says Nadia Blye, a young American war reporter turned academic who teaches political studies at Yale. With her faith in academia beginning to erode and memories from her time in the Balkans and the Middle East haunting her, Nadia travels with her boyfriend, Philip Lucas, to rural England to visit her father, Oliver, who has his own past to reckon with. The challenge of Nadia's encounter with Oliver forces decisions on her that will affect her for the rest of her life.
For thirty-five years, David Hare has written plays that capture the flavor of our times and address the interconnection between our secret motives and our public politics. In The Vertical Hour, he continues his investigation of the morality of international intervention, and of how the war in Iraq impacts the lives of British and American citizens.
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Derice Harwood
reviewed The Vertical Hour on February 20, 2020
The Vertical Hour
40. The Vertical Hour by David Hare
Another play about class struggle and politics. Usually I like Hare's plays, but this one sat on the page. I found it way too preachy, even though I was in agreement with the basic premise: that the military-industrial complex has become way too prevalent and how wrong the Iraq War was. Nadia, who teaches international politics in the US, and who was in Serbia for the war there, goes to visit Oliver, the father of her boyfriend, Phillip. The concept of the duty to intervene is discussed. There could have been real fireworks, but there was barely a fizzle. Not so much dated, as hopeless.
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