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Absolutely Revolting
Theatre

'Hate': Stephen Sewell’s play about family hatred

by Andrew Fuhrmann •
April 2013, no. 350

Stephen Sewell’s sixth play, Hate, first performed in 1988 and written with a bicentennial commission, is a monster of ambition. It is a play that seems to swallow whole the Australian story since 1788 and represent a family tragedy, one steeped in the ritual violence of an Ancient Greek myth or a perverted Easter drama.

 


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