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Beat the Devil

Covid-19 seems to be a sort of dirty bomb, thrown into the body to cause havoc. 

On the same day that the UK government finally made the first of two decisive interventions that led to a conspicuously late lockdown, David Hare contracted Covid-19. Nobody seemed to know much about it then, and many doctors are not altogether sure they know much more today. Suffering a pageant of apparently random symptoms, Hare recalls the delirium of his illness, which mixed with fear, dream, honest medicine and dishonest politics to create a monologue of furious urgency and power.

Beat the Devil was screened on Sky Arts on 11 November 2021.

Dates

The Bridge, London

27 August – 31 October 2020

Creative Team

Writer David Hare 

Director Nicholas Hytner 

Design Bunny Christie 

Lighting Design Jon Clark 

Sound Design Gareth Fry 

Music George Fenton 

Researcher Sophie Johnston

 

 

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