Pravda

by David Hare and Howard Brenton

Book Overview

Pravda (which means "truth") is a comedy of excess which, for the first time puts modern Fleet Street on the stage. "Pravda is an epic comedy - part The Front Page, part Arturo Ui - in which a press baron resembling Rupert Murdoch does battle with over 30 characters as he conquers Fleet Street journalism and by implication, liberal England's soul." (Frank Rich, New York Times) This is Howard Brenton's and David Hare's first collaboration since Brassneck...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0413584801
• ISBN13: 9780413584809
• Release Date: May 1988
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

A cynical view of the world of modern journalism

Although littered with 80's references which may trip up the reader at first, Pravda is the tale of an honest journalist who see's his profession debased through the growth of tabloids, the sensational shocking headlines and the British public's lust for sex, royalty and nationalism. Into this arena walks La Roux, cunning, devious and calculating, a very thinly veiled Murdoch his personality turns everyone towards him, controlling the worlds of royalty, sports, politics and at the end the world of journalism, forcing even the "hero" of the book to give up his honest journalistic instincts and start calling for smut.