David Hare’s new play, which opened last week at Bridge Theatre, in London, dramatizes a conflict between the urban planner Robert Moses and a coalition of neighborhood activists over Washington Square Park.
In 1965, when David Hare, the British playwright, was eighteen, he visited New York City for the first time. He prowled the Village, hoping to bump into Bob Dylan, and spent time hanging out in Washington Square. “It was exactly as it is now—it was always people with guitars, people playing chess, mothers with baby carriages,” he said recently.
While the second act concerns the war over Washington Square—a battle that Moses lost—the first act relates a campaign he won decades earlier. He had vanquished a coalition of wealthy landowners on Long Island to construct parkways upon which city dwellers might drive for a day out at Jones Beach State Park, which, with its Art Deco bathhouses and landscaped dunes, was also Moses’s creation.
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