Pravda (play)

Pravda is a play by David Hare and Howard Brenton. It was first produced at the Royal National Theatre on 2 May 1985, directed by David Hare starring Anthony Hopkins in the role of Lambert Le Roux. It is a satire on the mid-1980s newspaper industry, in particular the press baron Rupert Murdoch. Its title refers to the Russian Communist party paper Pravda.

The play won both the London Standard and City Limits Best Play award for 1985.

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Literary Encyclopaedia

Works of Howard Brenton

Major plays	Christie in Love (1969) · Revenge (1969) · Magnificence (1973) · The Churchill Play (1974) · Weapons of Happiness (1976) · Epsom Downs (1977) · The Romans in Britain (1980) · Thirteenth Night (1981) · The Genius (1983) · Bloody Poetry (1984) · Greenland (1988) · H.I.D. (Hess is Dead) (1989) · Berlin Bertie (1992) · Paul (2005) · In Extremis (2006) · Never So Good (2008) · Anne Boleyn (2010)

With David Hare	Brassneck (1973) · Pravda (1985)

With Tariq Ali	Iranian Nights (1989) · Moscow Gold (1990)

Adaptations and translations	Measure for Measure (1972) · The Life of Galileo (1980) · Danton's Death (1982) · Conversations in Exile (1982) · Faust (1995)

Television	Dead Head (1986) · Spooks (2002-5)

See also	Portable Theatre Company

Works of David Hare

Stage plays

Drama	Inside Out (1968) · How Brophy Made Good (1969) · Slag (1970) · What Happened To Blake? (1970) · Deathsheads (1971) · Lay By (1971) · England's Ireland (1972) · The Great Exhibition (1972) · Brassneck (1973) · Knuckle (1974) · Fanshen (1975) · Teeth 'n' Smiles (1975) · Deeds (1978) · Plenty (1978) · A Map of the World (1982) · The Madman Theory Of Deterrence (1983) · Pravda (1985) · The Bay at Nice, and Wrecked Eggs (1986) · The Knife (1987) · The Secret Rapture (1988) · Skylight (1995) · Feasting With The Panthers (1996) · When Shall We Live? (1996) · Amy's View (1997) · The Judas Kiss (1998) · My Zinc Bed (2000) · The Breath of Life (2002) · The Vertical Hour (2006) · A Chain Play (2007) · Gethsemane (2008) · South Downs (2011) ·

Trilogy	Racing Demon (1990) · Murmuring Judges (1991) · The Absence of War (1993) ·

Collaborations / adaptations	Brassneck (1973) · Pravda (1985) · The Blue Room (1998)

Monologues	Via Dolorosa (1998) · Berlin (2009) · Wall (2009) ·

Verbatim theatre	The Permanent Way (2004) · Stuff Happens (2004) · The Power of Yes (2009) ·

TV, film
and radio

Writer

Adaptations of own plays	Plenty (film, 1985) · The Secret Rapture (film, 1993) · My Zinc Bed (TV film, 2008)

New work	Man Above Men (TV, 1973) · Saigon: Year of the Cat (TV, 1983) · Wetherby (film, 1985) · Paris by Night (film, 1988) · Damage (film, 1992) · The Hours (film, 2002) · The Corrections (film, 2007) · Murder in Samarkand (film / radio, 2008) · The Reader (film, 2008)

Writer/director

Licking Hitler (TV) (1978) · Dreams of Leaving (TV) (1980) · Strapless (film) (1989) · Page Eight (film) (2011)

Director

The Designated Mourner (film, 1989) · Heading Home (TV film, 1991) · Paris, May 1919 (TV, 1993) · The Year of Magical Thinking (musical play, 2007)

Books

Writing Left-Handed (1991) · Asking Around (1993) · Acting Up (1999) · Obedience, Struggle and Revolt (2005)