LONDON — Can we get his doctor’s number? That’s a question that might occur to viewers of “Beat the Devil,” the 50-minute solo play at the Bridge Theater here, in which the playwright David Hare details his own experience of the coronavirus. This physician is never identified during a reminiscence that feels more like a staged diary entry — and an entirely straightforward one, at that — than a full-fledged play. We get news, however, about Hare’s wife, the designer Nicole Farhi, who is described lying across Hare’s chilly body to warm him up. If “Beat the Devil” treads a familiar path, it breaks with tradition by offering the role of Hare to a star more than 15 years his junior.

Source: New York Times September 24, 2020 09:41 UTC