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ACT's SKYLIGHT: Beyond the Theatre

A Contemporary Theatre presents SKYLIGHT by David Hare from September 7-30, 2018. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this list of books, films and music to enhance your experience of the show.

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16 items

  • The script of SKYLIGHT, for your reading pleasure.
    BookNew York : Samuel French, Inc., [1997] — 822.914 HARE 1997
  • Margaret Thatcher's shadow looms large over the events and lives of SKYLIGHT. Historian Cannadine sets Thatcher in the context of recent British history with elegance, wit and historical insight.
    BookOxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017. — B T3298C 2017
  • Churchill's satiric 1987 play is a tale of runaway, winner-take-all corporate greed told in rhyming couplets.
    BookNew York : S. French, 1990. — 822.914 C475S 1990
  • The character of Tom Sergeant seems loosely based on British designer and restaurateur Terence Conran. Here is an overview of Conran's views on environmentally friendly housing.
    BookLondon : Conran Octopus, 2009. — 643.7 C764E 2009
  • This vivid fictional memoir recounts the lives of six bohemian friends scratching out an existence in 1980s South London.
    BookMinneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2014] — FIC DYER 2014
  • The love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah Miles during the London Blitz ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. A chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, and slowly his love for her…
    BookNew York : Penguin Books, 2004. — FIC GREENE 2004
  • A surprising and intimate portrait of the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
    DVDBeverley Hills, CA : Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment, [2012] — DVD IRON LA
  • Back Pocket Pasta

    Inspired Dinners to Cook on the Fly

    Henry, Colu
    After you've seen SKYLIGHT don't be surprised if you find yourself craving spaghetti; it is cooked live on stage. Here are some quick recipes for a great late night pasta repast.
    BookNew York : Clarkson Potter/Publishers, [2017] — 641.822 H3962B 2017
  • Moving into the attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy, politically connected Fedden family in 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest becomes caught up in their rising fortunes and finds his own life forever altered by his…
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury ; [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck, 2004. — FIC HOLLING 2004
  • Thatcher's Trial

    180 Days That Created a Conservative Icon

    Kwarteng, Kwasi
    This brief but illuminating account of the beleagured Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's six-month effort to reshape conservatism, forging a generation of fiercely loyal supporters and detractors.
    BookNew York : Public Affairs, [2015] — 941.085 T3298K 2015
  • Based on another award-winning play by David Hare, this film traces the story of a French resistance fighter and her struggles to fit back into British Society after the war.
    DVDSanta Monica, Calif. : Lionsgate, [2010] — DVD PLENTY
  • Thirty-four varied stories transport readers back to a seminal period in American history, fraught with anxiety yet morally charged by newly politicized notions of identity.
    BookNew York City : Soho Press, 2016. — FIC SOHO PR 2016
  • Still in a Dream

    1988-1995 : a Story of Shoegaze

    A five disc comprehensive survey of the ethereal genre of Shoegaze indie pop music, which precisely captures the cultural moment of Hare's Skylight.
    Music CDChiswick, [London] : Cherry Red Records, [2016] — CD 782.42166 St541
  • Townsend hilariously captures the zeitgeist of the UK in the early '80s via Adrian Mole, a 13-year-old budding intellectual who sends his (very bad) poems into the BBC, including one entitled "Mrs Thatcher."
    BookNew York : Harper Perennial, 2010. — FIC TOWNSEN 2010
  • Falling in love as teens in 1980s Britain, Ursula and Jerry pursue separate educations, careers and relationships that help them mature and define their love for each other in this vivid period piece.
    BookNew York, N.Y. : Europa Editions, [2016] — FIC WOOF 2016
  • WASPish investment banker Sherman McCoy takes a wrong turn and discovers how the other half lives, and how quickly reputations can die in this classic American satire of the morally bankrupt moneyed classes.
    BookNew York : Picador, 2008. — FIC WOLFE 2008