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Hate is the story of the Gleasons - a rich, ruling-class white Australian family: a patriarch with monolithic ambition, his dutiful and iron-willed wife and their three children, variously sycophantic, cynical and despairing. Sewell uses a huge canvas in this passionate family epic, where the inner life of late twentieth century Australia is mercilessly exposed by the microcosm of the Gleason family. The machinations, both personal and political are fierce, violent and cruel. This is not sweet and innocent Australia, this is Australia flexing its muscles in the international market; this is greedy, corporate Australia. This is also vintage Sewell: a cry for the dispossessed, the forgotten and the despised.

Hate was commissioned for the Australian Bicentennial celebrations in 1988.

"...a play of considerable power and substance."
The Age

"Sewell gives a human face to the vast suffering, hatred, torture and killings that occur every day at a presumed safe distance."
Sydney Morning Herald

(This play is sold in our eCombo format, which provides a bundle of file types in a single download, so you can read your script on your favourite e-reader device or print from PDF. Download more information)

Tom Healey in Conversation with Stephen Sewell about Hate:

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  • epic political/family drama
  • 150
  • 5 total
  • 2 female identifying, 3 male identifying
  • 16 to 18, 18+
  • adult, young adult
  • Australian Script Centre


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Michael

Male | 30s | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 107

EXTRACT: You fathered us, raised us; set out our choices and chose for us; you made us run the maze of your mind till we thought we were you and then you spat us out like phlegm to infect the world; you crippled us! I sat here Father, in this empty chapel; empty every day of the year, the doors locked, sat here in the dust to escape you; sat in the corner to play marbles on these stones while the storm of your life battered at the walls outside.


Raymond

Male | 30s | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 117

EXTRACT: Because he was a deeply committed man, thoroughly enmeshed in the life of our country and carrying on all the great pioneering traditions that have made this country what it is. And let's face it, we're still a pioneering nation, with great unchartered wastes still to be opened up and put to productive use. And that's the way my Father would have liked it. Not to leave a dead world where everything had already been completed, but to leave one still brimming with opportunity and a nation with the courage to take it.


PDF: HATE FLYER, BELVOIR ST/PLAYBOX, 1988

COURTESY OF BELVOIR ST. THEATRE

Promotional flyer for the 1988 Belvoir St Theatre and Playbox Theatre Company production of ///Hate/// by Stephen Sewell, directed by Neil Armfield.

PDF: HATE MEDIA RELEASE, BELVOIR ST/PLAYBOX, 1988

COURTESY OF BELVOIR ST. THEATRE

Original media release for the 1988 Belvoir St Theatre and Playbox Theatre Company production of ///Hate/// by Stephen Sewell, directed by Neil Armfield.

PDF: HATE PROGRAM, BELVOIR ST/PLAYBOX, 1988

COURTESY OF BELVOIR ST THEATRE

Program for the 1988 Belvoir St Theatre and Playbox Theatre Company production of ///Hate/// by Stephen Sewell, directed by Neil Armfield.

WEBSITE: MALTHOUSE THEATRE PRODUCTION, SEASON 2013

MALTHOUSE THEATRE, 2013

Performing at the Merlyn Theatre, 20 February - 8 March. Directed by Marion Potts

ARTICLE: MALTHOUSE TO DELIVER HATE MALE IN 2013 SEASON TASTE

THE AGE, 20 AUGUST, 2012

Robin Usher talks about the upcoming announcement of Malthouse Theatre's 2013 season, which will include a production of Stephen Sewell's ///Hate/// directed by Marion Potts and starring William Zappa.

ARTICLE: BELVOIR ST: COMING OF AGE

THE AUSTRALIAN, 4 JUNE, 2011

Robert Cousins article about the history of Belvoir St Theatre, including discussion the company's first subscription season in 1988 under the artistic leadership of Neil Armfield—the last production of which was Stephen Sewell's ///Hate///.

REVIEW: A POWERFUL STUDY OF FAMILY HATE IN ACTION

THE AGE, 5 JANUARY, 1989

Leonard Radic review of ///Hate/// by Stephen Sewell and directed by Neil Armfield.

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