Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Change of tack

Gethsemane<br /> Cottesloe State of Emergency<br /> Gate

issue 22 November 2008

Gethsemane
Cottesloe

State of Emergency
Gate

There’s a massive hole in the middle of David Hare’s new play. It’s called Iraq. What an issue that was. What a best-seller. Talk about box-office. For two or three years it seemed that Hare had single-handedly won the Iraq war but his victory proved tenuous and short-lived.

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