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Gethsemane

a new play by David Hare

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

ON TOUR

Gethsemane will tour to Winsdor, Newcastle, Cambridge, Bath and Brighton from March 2009. Full details.

Theatre Royal Windsor performances now on sale.
Theatre Royal Newcastle performances now on sale.
Theatre Royal Brighton performances now on sale.
Theatre Royal Bath performances now on sale.

The illustrated PROGRAMME for Gethsemane is available to buy at the NT Bookshop and from the Cottesloe bookstall at performance times from 4 November, priced at £2.
Contents include: American political journalist Mark Danner on ‘Frozen Scandal’ – the relationship between press and politics today; who’s who in the company; and exclusive rehearsal photographs by Catherine Ashmore. Read an extract from Mark Danner's article here.

Programme sales help support the work of the National Theatre.