Read The Blue Touch Paper Online
Authors: David Hare
All other photos courtesy of the author.
Two short sections of the book, about Lancing and New York in 1965, were previously published in a different form in
Areté
.
With thanks to Ann and Lindsay Todd, Tom Stoppard, Philip Roth and the Peggy Ramsay Foundation for permission to quote from letters.
Mum and Dad, Abbey Close Church, Paisley, just having married, 22 October 1941
My sister Margaret and DH St Leonard's, 1951
DH with Roger Dancey, cataloguing the primal scream, California, 1965
The Fields House prefects at Lancing College, 1964: first L, James Watson; third from L, DH; centre, Patrick Halsey, who took me to Dachau
Portable Theatre: watching from the stalls, Snoo Wilson, DH and Tony Bicât
Cambridge: DH pen and ink drawing by Richard Cork, 1966
Howard Brenton, photographed by Snoo
Royal Court: the playwrights of the 1971 season, L to R, DH, Ted WhiteÂhead, David Storey. Front and centre, the gatekeeper, John Osborne
DH with Tennessee Williams, Manhattan, 1978
Andrew Dickson, Rene Augustus, Helen Mirren, Hugh Fraser, Mick Ford, band and vocals for
Teeth 'n' Smiles
, 1975
Fanshen
, the first production
Bill Paterson, in charge of black propaganda in
Licking Hitler
, 1977
Kate Nelligan, the bona fide great actress in
Plenty