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Saturday, 15th November 2008

I tried "Pravda", I tried "Racing Demon", I suffered through "Stuff Happens". Having consumed my share of David Hare sermons, I won't be going anywhere near "Gethsemane", which has just opened at the National. Ian Jack tries and fails to make some positive noises in his Guardian column. Telegraph critic Charles Spencer doesn't like it either:

There's even that ubiquitous Hare figure, the Woman with a Conscience (Nicola Walker has drawn the short straw) to lecture the other characters and the audience on just what they should be thinking and how to behave. Increasingly, Hare's plays are beginning to seem more like lessons in civics, politics and morality rather than gripping dramas with characters who actually take us by surprise.

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