The Gospel According
to Paul
Biggins
almost out-Keaters Keating…If only we had someone this clever running the
country.”
Lloyd Bradford
Syke, Crikey
One of Australia’s favourite
performers, Jonathan Biggins, is Paul Keating – visionary, reformer and
rabble-rouser – in a highly anticipated new comedy, The Gospel According to
Paul. Full of intelligence and wit, The Gospel According to Paul is a funny,
insightful and occasionally poignant portrait of Paul Keating – the man that – as he tells it –
single-handedly shaped contemporary Australia.
Jonathan Biggins’ performance as Paul Keating is well known
from the long running Sydney Theatre Company success story, The Wharf Revue. Beyond
the canny impersonation, Jonathan, like so many Australians, has long been
fascinated by Keating and what Keating means to Australia. Showcasing his
eviscerating wit, rich rhetoric and ego the size of Everest, The Gospel
According to Paul distils Keating’s essence into 75 minutes, focussing on key
biographical milestones, landmark political achievements and personal
obsessions. It shows the man who grew up in the tribe of the Labor Party and
gained an education at the knee of Jack Lang, who treated economics as an
artform, and demanded we confront the wrongs of our colonial past.
Biggins asks the question: What can we learn today from this
singular politician, and the momentous time in our country’s history he
dominated?
Written and performed by Jonathan Biggins.
Presented by: Frankston Arts Centre and Soft Tread
Enterprises
Tuesday 21 May, 7.30pm
artscentre.frankston.vic.gov.au
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