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There’s only one safe place for a politician to live and that’s in ignorance.

Gethsemane is as close to pitch perfect as theatre in Sydney gets these days.
Australian Stage Online

There are many performances to relish here, including ... a welcome return to the stage by Hugh Keays-Byrne.
The Australian

Gethsemane stands in comparison with Hare’s very greatest work.
The Guardian

... a beautifully structured play ... an insight into why we are in such a mess today.
Time Out, London

David Hare

Neil Armfield

With
Paula Arundell, Emily Barclay, Charlie Garber, Claire Jones, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Rhys Muldoon, Sarah Peirse, Andy Rodoreda and Dan Wyllie

David Hare says he’s never written a play quite like this. Hilarious and furious, Gethsemane is his dazzling comedy about democracy’s dark night of the soul.

Otto Fallon is a former hairdresser and boy-band producer. Now he’s a fundraiser and problem solver for New Labour. Meredith Guest is the Home Secretary. Suzette’s her teenage daughter and she’s about to bring everything crashing down.

Hare lets fly with a thrilling narrative and savage wit worthy of the great Restoration comedies. His menagerie of the privileged skates through a world of mirrors and high hypocrisy where British Labour has suspended its idealism and become the opposite of itself. Written out of deep anger, Gethsemane asks how we maintain any sense of morality in a world so defined by price and affluence. But glowing at its core is a tentative sense of promise for the future…

Following his acclaimed productions of Hare’s Stuff Happens, The Judas Kiss and My Zinc Bed, Neil Armfield reignites his artistic friendship with one of the world’s truly brilliant writers.