About the Play:

Amy's View has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues.

Amy's View is a full length drama by David Hare. Acclaimed actress Esme Allen must deal with the younger generation's growing disdain for the theatre, as personified by the filmmaker boyfriend of her daughter, Amy.

Amy's View mixes love, death and the theatre in a way which is both heady and original. It is 1979. Esme Allen is a well-known West End actress at just the moment when the West End is ceasing to offer actors a regular way of life. The visit of her young daughter, Amy, with a new boyfriend sets in train a series of events which only find their shape eighteen years later. After sold out performances at the National Theatre in London prompted a transfer to the West End, Judi Dench came to Broadway to star in this generational play about the long term struggle between a strong mother and her loving daughter.

Amy's View premiered in 1997 at the Royal National Theatre's Lyttelton Theatre in London. It then moved to Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1999. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and is regularly performed in regional and community theatre productions.

Cast: 3 female, 3 male

"What people say:

"A diffuse, funny, moving, difficult, fascinating play…. A major dramatist has written a strong, rich play.” — London Times

"Above all else, Amy's View offers the sheer exhilaration of watching a major dramatist writing for the theatre he loves at the very height of his powers.” — London Daily Express

Sir David Hare is one of Britain's most internationally performed playwrights. He was born in Sussex in 1947. A writer of social themes, David Hare has been Associate Director of the National Theatre in London since 1984. He was knighted in 1998 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.