Courting approval

Last updated at 11:51am on 27.04.09

Luminaries of the stage and screen huddled into the Royal Court to hear David Hare read Wall, his latest oeuvre musing on the Arab-Israeli conflict...

(Left to right) Julian Sands and Stephen Daldry; Nicole Farhi and David Hare; Clare Higgins, Claire van Kampen and Mark Rylance

David Hare called on his pal Stephen Daldry, director of The Reader, to help build up his performance and, with script in hand, addressed an audience including Daldry's protégé Jamie Bell, who jetted in from LA for the occasion.

Edited by Emilie McMeekan
Photographs by James Peltekian