Via Dolorosa

Apart from the energetic use of four cameras, few attempts have been made to disguise the stage origins of this impassioned one-man show, delivered as a monologue by playwright David Hare. Acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic, Hare's enthusiastic but rarely rose-tinted, consideration of the customs and causes that shaped the state of Israel is a combustible combination of anecdotes and opinions that will infuriate as many as it intrigues. However, the comparison between Israeli zeal for its religious and secular traditions and the overwhelming apathy of modern Britain might have been more provocative had Hare been able to call on the declamatory skills of Spalding Gray, whose experiences while filming The Killing Fields were so memorably brought to the screen in Swimming to Cambodia.