The Gospel According to Paul

Biggins almost out-Keaters Keating...If only we had someone this clever running the country.

Is today’s lack of leadership a product of our times? Or can real leaders shape their times? The Gospel According to Paul answers these questions with a funny, insightful and poignant portrait of Paul Keating.

Written by and featuring Jonathan Biggins, The Gospel According to Paul paints a sympathetic but uncompromising picture of one of our most unique and compelling politicians, exploring his impact on our country and history - and more importantly, our understanding of both.

Jonathan Biggins’ performance as Paul Keating is well known from the long-running Sydney Theatre Company success story, the Wharf Revue. But beyond the canny impersonation, Jonathan, like so many Australians, has long been fascinated by Keating and what he represents to Australia.

Paul Keating is a man of eviscerating wit and rich rhetoric with an ego the size of Everest. Distilling the essence of his leadership into 90 minutes, The Gospel According to Paul focusses on landmark political achievements as well as personal obsessions: a 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 with rigorous honesty the wrongs of our colonial past. And perhaps most fascinating of all, his great engagement with the arts and in particular classical music, and his profound belief in the power of an inner life.

What can we learn from this grand politician, and this momentous time in our country's history?

REVIEWS

"Biggins Finest Work" Sydney Morning Herald ★★★★½

"Biggins has the gestures, the jowls and the swagger of Keating so aptly the audience knows they’re in for the real deal" Artshub