Hate – Malthouse Theatre

Overview

Australia's 'royal family' seems to have it all — money, power, love. But scratch the incredibly shiny surface and dark secrets abound and the knives are out. Dangerously charismatic patriarch and political kingpin John calls his clan together at the family homestead, and against the backdrop of a terrible storm, the Gleasons fight it out for a slice of the empire in Stephen Sewell's Hate.

The family fortune becomes the least of anyone's worries as personal and political machinations are violent, fierce, and cruel in a battle which sees Gleason pitted against Gleason. The perfect facade crumbles and terrible secrets, shielded for years by enormous wealth, finally come to light in the 25th anniversary performance of the play, which was originally commissioned for the Australian bicentennial in 1988.