David Hare: can the Labour party find its voice?
It's 22 years since the playwright's chronicle of an election-losing Labour leader, The Absence of War, premiered at the Olivier theatre. On the eve of its revival he calls for the party of the left to rediscover itselfSometime in 1989, I had the idea of writing what, for me, would be a new kind of play. The plan was to go off to uncover a subject in the manner of a reporter or a documentary film-maker. But then when…