2010s
Hare's 2011 play South Downs, based on his based on his own experiences of being schooled at Lancing College, was well received at the Chichester Festival, and was adapted as a Saturday Drama on BBC Radio 4.
In December 2011, it was announced that his monologue Wall about the Israeli West Bank barrier was being adapted by Cam Christiansen as a live-action/animated documentary by the National Film Board of Canada; originally slated for completed in 2014, Wall premiered at the Calgary International Film Festival in 2017. In November 2012, The New School for Drama selected Hare as temporary Artist-in-residence, during which he interacted with student playwrights about his experience in varying mediums. His career is examined in the Reputations strand on TheatreVoice. He is particularly well known for incisive commentary on the problems of public institutions. Raymond Williams once said, sardonically, that the public services are largely managed by the nation's "upper servants". Hare addresses this group, providing an analysis of the workings of the institutions: he is, he has said, interested in the struggle to make procedures work better – right now – not in waiting until some revolution, somehow, sometime, comes about to raze the current system altogether, to replace it with perfection.
In 2016, Daily Variety reported that the Jonathan Franzen novel Purity was in the process of being adapted into a 20-hour limited series by Todd Field who would share writing duties with Franzen and Hare. It would star Daniel Craig as Andreas Wolf and be executive produced by Field, Franzen, Craig, Hare & Scott Rudin. However, in a February 2018 interview with The Times London, Hare said that, given the budget for Field's adaptation (170 million), he doubted it would ever be made, but added "It was one of the richest and most interesting six weeks of my life, sitting in a room with Todd Field, Jonathan Franzen and Daniel Craig bashing out the story. They're extremely interesting people."
In 2016, Hare wrote the screenplay for Denial based on Deborah Lipstadt's History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier. The film starred Tom Wilkinson, Rachel Weisz, and Timothy Spall. The film dramatises the Irving v Penguin Books Ltd case, in which Lipstadt, a Holocaust scholar, was sued by Holocaust denier David Irving for libel. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to positive reviews. It later received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film nomination.
In 2018, Hare wrote his first limited series, Collateral, starring Carey Mulligan, Billie Piper, John Simm, Nicola Walker and Nathaniel Martello-White. Over four parts it told a state-of-the-nation story revolving around the murder of a pizza delivery driver, and its implications through the wider community. Hare wrote in an introduction for a BBC press release that the TV series was about, '...the third great challenge - the waves of migration prompted by war, poverty and fresh persecution...'. It was broadcast in February 2018.
Also in 2018 he wrote another state-of-the-nation play - this time about the Labour party in the late 2010s, with the title I'm Not Running, about a local politician being faced with an impossible choice. It premiered in October 2018 at the National Theatre - his seventeenth play to premiere there.
His eighteenth was Peter Gynt, after Ibsen. It was a modern reimagining, set in highly realistic forests to grand banqueting halls, amongst other settings. The three-and-a-half hour long play, directed by Jonathan Kent, earned itself, amongst multitudinous other reviews, four stars in The Guardian for being a, according to Michael Billington, 'sharp satire on contemporary mores'.
Ralph Fiennes directed Hare's screenplay about Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev in The White Crow, which premiered in 2019, based on Rudolf Nureyev: A Life by Julie Kavanaugh.
