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. Once the killing tailed off and the issue slithered down the news agenda, he was left without his worldwide smash-hit subject. A terrible loss. In Stuff Happens and The Vertical Hour, the Iraq issue set Hare’s mind ablaze and he produced thrilling bursts of political analysis and polemic. Now he turns his attention to the candyfloss topic of party funding, which he tries to invest with some moral density by attaching it, rather clumsily, to a family crisis in the Cabinet.
The female Home Secretary (beautifully played by Tamsin Greig) learns that her bolshie teenage daughter has a dope habit.
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