David Hare has written over thirty stage plays and thirty screenplays for film and television. The plays include Plenty , Pravda (with Howard Brenton), The Secret Rapture , Racing Demon , Skylight , Amy's View , The Blue Room , Via Dolorosa , Stuff Happens , The Absence of War , The Judas Kiss , The Red Barn , The Moderate Soprano , I'm Not Running , Beat the Devil and Straight Line Crazy . For cinema, he has written The Hours , The Reader, Damage , Denial , Wetherby and The White Crow among others, while his television films include Licking Hitler , the Worricker Trilogy , Collateral and Roadkill . We Travelled , a new collection of essays and poems, was published in 2021. In a millennial poll of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, five of the top hundred were his.