Heroes and villains
DAVID HARE has written more than 40 plays and his latest, Straight Line Crazy, at the Bridge Theatre, strikes me as one of his best. At a time when the theatre is full of spectacular escapism, he has delivered a play that is rich, meaty and relevant. Above all, it raises the question of what kind of towns and cities we want to live in and whether whole communities should be sacrificed to transportation.
Mr Hare tackles the subject by looking at two stages in the life of the American urban planner, Robert Moses. In 1926, he comes across as a progressive populist forcing the governor of New
