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DAVID WILLIAMSON (1942 - ) |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Cameron Creswell Agency UK representative Macnaughton Lord Representation (Theatrical and Literary Agents) |
David Williamson's first full-length play, The Coming of Stork, premiered at Melbourne's La Mama Theatre in 1970. He went on to pen over thirty plays and become Australia's most successful playwright. His plays have been produced throughout Australia and internationally. A number of his stage works have been adapted for the screen, including The Removalists, Don's Party, The Club, Travelling North, Emerald City, Sanctuary and Brilliant Lies. He won AFI screenplay awards for Petersen, Don's Party, Gallipoli and Travelling North. He has also won eleven AWGIE Awards. He lives on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
Plays by David Williamson
After the Ball | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1977 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780868195377 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37441 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Stephen has, with ill grace, returned home to his mother's deathbed. As he and his sister rake through the family photographs and childhood memories, they find conflicting versions of their parents' unhappy marriage. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Amigos | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780868197463 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51358 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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| At the 1968 Olympics, the four Amigos, an Australian rowing team, won a bronze medal. It was lifetime bonding material but 35 years later, only two of the Amigos keep in touch. Jim is a banker with money expensive house and a young, beautiful wife. It seems he has it all but his friend Dick, a heart surgeon, has something that Jim wants: a sterling reputation. The 2 mates and their wives meet up in Queensland with competing personal agendas. And then Steven, the third Amigo, turns up ready to expose all about their past. A savagely funny play that exposes the subtle aggression and unacknowledged dependencies of male friendship - and the angst and irritation created for those on the friendship's sidelines. | |||||
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Audience Participation Bit | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Australian Performing Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52923 | |||
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Genre: | Stage Revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Birthrights | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780868196985 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51359 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| A bittersweet play about motherhood. At 29, Helen has a vital operation that stops her from having what she desperately wants: a child. Her younger sister Claudia gives her a wonderful gift: she bears a child for her sister. However, years later when Claudia finds out that she and her husband Martin can't conceive, she realises that the only baby she will ever bear is Kelly, the child she had for her sister. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Brilliant Lies | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37442 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Williamson turns his penetrating eye and sharply focused wit to issues of 'political correctness' and sexual harassment. A serious comedy, it is a stimulating contribution to the continuing debate on our changing social values. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Careers | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Australian Performing Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52924 | |||
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Genre: | Stage Revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Celluloid Heroes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney | 1980 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37443 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Charitable Intent | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | Melbourne Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Jack Manning Trilogy, Currency Press, Australia >>>, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51365 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of the Jack Manning Trilogy | |||||
Synopsis: | This play focuses on the contradictions that erupt as workplace values change | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Club, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne | 1977 | ||||
Company: | Melbourne Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868190136 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37444 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | aka Players, aka The Team | |||||
| Williamson's famous play about the uses and abuses of managerial power, which in 1976 foreshadowed the great changes that Australian football has since endured, proves even more prescient since the rise and fall of Super League. This is a play set behind the scenes, a head-on tackle of brawn versus bureaucracy. | |||||
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Coming of Stork, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1970 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1974 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37445 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | later became the short film Stork | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Conversation, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Theatre, Sydney | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Ensemble Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Jack Manning Trilogy, Currency Press, Australia >>>, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41433 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | voice | |||||
Notes: | part of the Jack Manning Trilogy | |||||
Synopsis: | The family of a rapist and murderer are confronted by the family of his victim | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Corporate Vibes | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780868196534 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51360 | |||
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Genre: | Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| A real estate developer faces a staff mutiny. When a man who is accustomed to getting his own way finds himself confronted by a softly spoken mediator and a demand for buildings which 'delight the eye' the stage is set for a vintage farce. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dead White Males | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1995 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37446 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Postmodernism versus liberal humanism - can an older male academic convert a young female student to a post-structural, post-patriarchal view of literature and seduce her at the same time? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dealing With Abos | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Australian Performing Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Collected plays 2, Currency Plays, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52925 | |||
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Genre: | Stage Revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Department, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1974 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37447 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A staff meeting of the Engineering Dept in a College of Advanced Education is the occasion in this play for an acute dissection of the workings of bureaucracy and the absurd politicking needed to support it | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Don Parties On | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne Playhouse | 08 Jan 2011 | ||||
Company: | Melbourne Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-908-5 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124827 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | Forty years ago, a young playwright muscled his way onto the scene with a clutch of time-defining plays, including Don's Party. With this sequel, David Williamson celebrates four decades of telling the tribe their story. | |||||
| It's 21 August 2010, the night of yet another federal election and, of course, yet another election night party at Don's place. Over the decades, as he and his friends watched governments come and go, they have also closely followed the incoming results from each other's lives: the tallies of luck and misfortune, the unexpected swings for and against. And through it all, the lesson that this crowd of superannuated baby boomers never seemed to learn is that politics and strong personalities should never be mixed with alcohol. | |||||
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Don's Party | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1971 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780868195308 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37448 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| On election night 1969 Don and Kath give a party to watch the results. As the tide turns against Labor the good cheer palls and the faded ideals and disappointed hopes of the characters begin to show | |||||
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Emerald City | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978--0868191706 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37449 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| A screen writer and his publisher wife move to the Emerald City where fame and fortune are there for the taking, but surprises are in store. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Face To Face | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Theatre, Sydney | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Ensemble Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Jack Manning Trilogy, Currency Press, Australia >>>, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37450 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of the Jack Manning Trilogy | |||||
Synopsis: | an emotional debate which draws out a trail of responsibility extending from Glen to his work-mates, his mother, his employers and to society itself. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Flame Out | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Australian Performing Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52926 | |||
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Genre: | Stage Revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Flatfoot | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780868197357 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51361 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Flatfoot (aka Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus) pops up in the 21st Century, enraged to find his ideas have been plundered through the ages by everyone from Shakespeare to sitcom writers. To prove his point, he takes us back to Ancient Rome where he must convince his producer that his new play will be a hit, won't offend the Roman censor and won't give servants ideas about their station. But the play hasn't been written, so Plautus must act it out before the cynical producer, making it up as he goes along. Pandemonium lurks just around the corner as, with a little help from his Greek wife, ex-dancer and seductress extraordinaire, they tackle all ten roles between them. A boisterous comedy for all ages | |||||
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Great Man, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51362 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A volatile group gathers to plan the funeral of a Labor Party icon. They all claim to know the truth about him but their recollections are coloured by their own interests. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Handful of Friends, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelaide, Australia | 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37451 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Russell, an academic, and his wife Wendy have recently returned from the US. Mark, a filmmaker, has just released a movie in which his actor/journalist wife, Sally, plays her first major role. Mutual friends believe the main characters are based on Russell and Wendy, and that they are cruelly satirised. Jill, Russell's sister who is devoted to her brother is angry and also resents Sally for incidents in their earlier lives. Old memories and antagonisms surface, triggered by the film, and what at first appears as envy and malice take on a different perspective as the group explode briefly into violence and settle for an uneasy reconciliation. Noone emerges honourably but they share the wisdom of hindsight. | |||||
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Heretic | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Penguin Books Australia 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978--0140261837 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51363 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
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| In 1925, American anthropologist Margaret Mead visited Samoa on a research trip and thought she had discovered a utopian society free of the restrictive social conventions of western societies. Her revelations of promiscuity among Samoan teenagers made her the guru of generations of academics and the 1960s aficionados of sex, rock'n'roll and free speech. In 1983 Australian academic Derek Freeman exposed Mead's findings as fraudulent and revealed the story of how and why the Samoans had duped her. Heretic explores the lifetime obsessions of two remarkable, headstrong protagonists. It also takes us inside the psyche of Derek Freeman, an iconoclast who was prepared to risk his marriage and shatter his career in the pursuit of truth | |||||
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Hire Purchase | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Australian Performing Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52927 | |||
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Genre: | Stage Revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Imperialism Sketch | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Australian Performing Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52928 | |||
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Genre: | Stage Revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Influence | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780868197593 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51364 | |||
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| Ziggy Blasco is a talk-back host whose power rests in his influence. He fills Sydney's airwaves with his appeals to common-sense, his hard line with terrorists and his lashings at political correctness. Politicians beg to be on his show. He is courted by the world. A powerful public figure. But in the private sphere Ziggy's influence is fading away. He can barely maintain a conversation with his glamorous young wife Carmela. His daughter swings between truancy and dabbling on the stock market - with his money. His sister despises all that he stands for and while Ziggy preaches to the metropolis that there is no such thing as the working poor, his own housekeeper struggles to provide for her family. Now his elderly migrant father reveals a dark family secret and threatens to go to the press. Just how far does Ziggy's influence reach? A scathing and bitingly funny play about the media personalities that dominate our lives and the divisions that can shatter families. | |||||
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Jugglers Three | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1972 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1974 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37452 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Rewritten as "Third World Blues" | |||||
Synopsis: | Australian conscripts in the Vietnam War | |||||
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King Lear | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52929 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Let the Sunshine | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli, Australia | 07 May 2009 | ||||
Company: | Ensemble Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-865-1 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112318 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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| Let the Sunshine asks what happens when people of widely different political views are forced to co-exist. Toby, a maker of hard-hitting documentaries, flees Sydney with his wife after a blow up with the press. He arrives at his old childhood haven only to find the simple town has been transformed into a playground for the wealthy and his old friend has become married to a wealthy property developer. Add the couple's two incompatible offspring, a struggling musician and a ruthless corporate lawyer, and the scene is set for a vintage Williamson comedy. | |||||
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Lotte's Gift | ||
| 1st Produced: | Assembly @ George Street (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Christine Dunstan Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101211 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Australia's internationally acclaimed classical guitarist Karin Schaupp tells the remarkable journey of three generations of women. Throughout the play, Karin, a talented actor as well as sublime musician, plays the music that signposted their lives. An extraordinary and personal journey, Lotte's Gift will leave you uplifted and inspired by the power of both love and music. | |||||
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Money and Friends | ||
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1992 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978--0868193144 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37453 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| Peter, a professor of pure mathematics, weekends at Crystal Inlet as do most of his friends: Conrad (a star television reporter) and his wife Jaquie; Stephen (a surgeon) and his wife Penny; Alex (a mega-lawyer) and his wife Vicki; and Margaret, a history professor, Peter's closest friend. Peter and Margaret are the exceptions to wealth and marriage-his wife passed away and her husband left her for a younger woman. As this weekend begins, Margaret is a little more bitter than usual and Peter is a little more accommodating as they've both got something bothering them. During drinks one evening, Margaret, fed up with the "tribe," gets a little too nasty, ending the evening on a sour note. Margaret's honesty prompts Peter to tell her that he's about to lose everything unless he can come with $40,000 to cover a failed loan. She insists he tell everyone and ask for their help, but he refuses and makes her promise not reveal anything. The weekend progresses, and taking Margaret's lead, Peter attempts some honesty, starting with her. He tells Margaret to stop picking up younger men, and then goes on to inform his other friends what he really thinks, leaving them stunned. Initially, except Margaret, they never want to see him again, but soon realize that what Peter did was actually good for them. Realizing that Peter is really their best friend, Alex and Vicki plan a surprise party in his honor. In light of these plans Margaret can't keep quiet and spills the story of Peter's financial trouble, suggesting they should loan him $40,000. Despite their wealth, however, they'd rather die than part with any of their money, even to help their friend. In the end, all are forced to make decisions regarding Peter's debt, and as money initially tore them apart, it will inevitably bring some of the friends back together again. | |||||
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Operator | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780868197593 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51366 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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| Young, charming and a go-getter, Jake is the ideal candidate for an executive position with a thriving local company. He is welcomed aboard by his hard-working boss, the company'' smug CEO and Melissa, Jake's co-worker who has all the intelligence, industry and integrity Jake lacks. But Jake has a secret weapon: his skills at exploiting, manipulating and manoeuvring would put Machiavelli in the shade. He's the Operator. A contemporary Australian drama with a satirical edge. | |||||
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Perfectionist, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1982 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868190693 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37454 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| Modern marriage follows a pair of academics from Denmark to Sydney as they blunder along the rival paths of career and parenthood. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Removalists, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1971 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1972 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868190389 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37455 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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| A young policeman's first day on duty becomes a violent initiation into law enforcement. Remarkable for its blend of boisterous humour and horrifying violence, the play has built a classic reputation as a statement on authoritarianism | |||||
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Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129853 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sanctuary | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1994 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37456 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An investigative journalist returns to Australia to retire but a student working on his biography intervenes | |||||
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Scarlett O'Hara at the Crimson Parrot | ||
| 1st Produced: | Victorian Arts Centre Playhouse, Melbourne | 07 Jun 2008 | ||||
Company: | Melbourne Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-86819-865-1 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112319 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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| Scarlett is a 36-year-old waitress who lives with her mother, has no boyfriend, and spends too much time watching old romantic movies. In her working hours she re-runs the scenes from the films with her co-worker Gordon, the gay kitchen hand in the restaurant. As Scarlett drifts deeper into her reveries of Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Errol Flynn and Humphrey Bogart, she takes her place as the heroine in each of their movies. | |||||
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Senator Ivor Greenwood's Speech | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Australian Performing Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52930 | |||
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Genre: | Stage Revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Siren | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37457 | |||
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Genre: | Situation comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A love story with a difference. Holed up in a Central Coast motel room with three undercover detectives, Liz has been employed to use her sex appeal on Billy Nottle, a local councillor suspected of accepting bribes from developers. Williamson again chooses to examine power games and sexual politics but shows that moral values can still hold true. | |||||
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Song | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Australian Performing Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52931 | |||
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Genre: | Stage Revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Sons of Cain | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1985 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37458 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Against a background of disintegrating marital relationships and emotional greed, a newspaper editor with three investigative journalists takes on the Mr Bigs of the drug trade. The villain proves to be the nature of society itself. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Soulmates | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780868196985 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51367 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| The slippery business of books and writing, commerce versus art, serious writing versus popular writing. Set in both Melbourne and New York it is a tale of revenge as the best-selling expatriate author Katie Best engineers a scheme to bring her most craven critic Danny O'Loughlin undone. | |||||
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Terra Australis | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Australian Performing Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52932 | |||
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Genre: | Stage Revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Third World Blues | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney | 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Australia, Jan 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868195209 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37459 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Rewrite of "Jugglers Three" | |||||
| Graham, a conscript just back from the Vietnam War, is awaiting a reunion with his wife Keren when her lover Neville appears instead. Their confrontation is interrupted by the arrival of Neville's pregnant wife Elizabeth and then by Keren herself. The domestic comedy is dramatically overlaid by Graham's reverberating question: 'What have you done to stop the war?', but the ethics of protest are further complicated by the arrival of Dennis, Graham's army mate, who having discovered his own wife with another man, kidnapped their child and robbed a service station | |||||
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Top Silk | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37460 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in the colourful world of the law, a Legal Aid solicitor and a prominent barrister battle over their individual careers and the future of their teenage son. Painfully they learn that there is a seamy side to justice at both the bottom and the top of Australian society and that occasionally, the young are wiser than their parents. | |||||
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Travelling North | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney | 1979 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Australian plays, Currency Press, Sydney | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-85459-056-5 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37461 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| A moving homage to old age and the old radicals who changed the course of our history. Soon after Frank and Frances desert their former lives for a northerly bohemian retreat, Frank's mortality asserts itself | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Up For Grabs | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780868196534 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37462 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| Art dealers: parasites or prophets? Simone Allen likes to see herself as the latter but when given the opportunity to sell one of the better Whiteleys, her behaviour becomes less than angelic as the pressure mounts. Driven by greed and aesthetics, Williamson's characters discover how far they will go when more than just a beautiful work of art is up for grabs in this sexy comedy of manners. | |||||
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Vic Market, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Australian Performing Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52933 | |||
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Genre: | Stage Revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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What If You Died Tomorrow | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne | 1973 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney, 1974 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37463 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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