Gethsemane
a new play by David Hare
ON TOUR
When Gethsemane finished its run at the National Theatre, it toured to Winsdor, Newcastle, Cambridge, Bath and Brighton from March 2009.
Once it was possible to do good by being good. Now the only way to do good is by being clever.
Nothing is more important to a modern political party than fund-raising. But the values of the donors can’t always coincide with the professed beliefs of the party. And family scandal within the cabinet has the potential to throw both the money-raisers and the money-spenders into chaos.
This richly imagined ensemble play about British public life looks at the way business, media and politics are now intertwined to nobody’s advantage, as, in an unforgiving world, one character after another passes through Gethsemane.
Gethsemane is David Hare’s fourteenth original play for the National Theatre.
‘A writing career which is the most consistently adventurous of any British dramatist.’ Observer
Gethsemane finished on: 24 February 2009
