Joesphine Hart passes away aged 67.
Director of the Donmar Warehouse’s current poetry series, Josephine Hart, has died in hospital from an undisclosed illness. The critically acclaimed Irish writer, theatre producer and director was the wife of Maurice Saatchi, she leaves behind two sons.
Her legacy, as well as her children will most certainly be her prolific writing. She wrote the hugely successful novel Damage which was later optioned into a film starring Juliette Binoche and Jeremy Irons. Damage was published in 1991 and in the next 28 years, Hart went on to write another six novels and produced and directed numerous West End plays.
Irons along with a superb cast including Felicity Kendal took part in Poetry Week with Josephine Hart at Donmar Warehouse, which ends on Friday 3rd June. Hart will be remembered for her many effors in bringing poetry to new audiences and championing the art of poetry readings.
Speaking about Hart’s absence from the Poetry Week, actress Deborah Findlay noted: “It is very sad she can’t take her place in the week her dreams of bringing poetry to the West End came to fruition”. The week of poetry has seen the works of Sylvia Plath and T.S Eliot amongst others, read with the life and times of the authors as the focal point. Of the notion behind the series Hart said, "an understanding of the life and philosophy of the poet illuminates the poetry"
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