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David Williamson

DAVID WILLIAMSON

  (1942 - )
Nationality:    Australian
email:    n/a     Website:    Click here

Literary Agent:    Cameron Creswell Agency  

Williamson is widely recognised as Australia's most successful playwright and over the last thirty years his plays have been performed throughout Australia and produced in Britain, United States, Canada and many European and Asian countries. His play Travelling North had a successful production in Vietnam and the Club ran for a year in Beijing, where its depiction of back room committee politicking obviously struck a chord with the locals. 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, and six of them have been made into quality Telemovies in Poland. David Williamson has won the Australian Film Institute film script award five times, for Petersen (1974), Don's Party (1976), Gallipoli (1981) Travelling North ( 1987) and Balibo (2009) and has won twelve Australian Writers' Guild AWGIE Awards. He also wrote the screenplay for Pharlap (1981) , the Year of Living Dangerously, (1983) receiving a nomination for best screenplay from the Writer's Guild of America. He wrote the screenplay for Showtime's On the Beach which won the Australian AFI award for best miniseries and was nominated for the Golden Globe awards in the U.S. He also wrote the screenplay for the HBO miniseries A Dangerous Life, about the fall of the Marcos regime in the Philippines which made the critics top ten list of the year in both New York and Los Angeles. Altogether he has written twelve screenplays and five miniseries, including the Four Minute Mile for the BBC and the Last Bastion about General McArthur's arrival in Australia in WW 11, which was sold all over the world. He lives on Queensland's Sunshine Coast with his writer wife, Kristin Williamson.

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         After the Ball         Alfred the Incredible Sheepboy         Amigos         At Any Cost?         Audience Participation Bit         Birthrights         Brilliant Lies         Careers         Celluloid Heroes         Charitable Intent         Club, The         Coming of Stork, The         Conversation, A         Corporate Vibes         Cruise Control         Dead White Males         Dealing With Abos         Department, The         Don Parties On         Don's Party         Dream Home         Emerald City         Face To Face         Flame Out         Flatfoot         Great Man, The         Handful of Friends, A         Happiness         Heretic         Hire Purchase         Imperialism Sketch         Influence         Jack Of Hearts         Jugglers Three         King Lear         Let the Sunshine         Lotte's Gift         Managing Carmen         Money and Friends         Nothing Personal         Operator         Perfectionist, The         Removalists, The         Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica         Rupert         Sanctuary         Scarlett O'Hara at the Crimson Parrot         Senator Ivor Greenwood's Speech         Sexual Follies         Siren         Song         Sons of Cain         Soulmates         Strings Under My Fingers         Terra Australis         Third World Blues         Top Silk         Travelling North         Up For Grabs         Vic Market, The         What If You Died Tomorrow         When Dad Married Fury         You've Got to Get on Jack

After the Ball

After the Ball
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.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Suncorp Theatre, Brisbane, Qld     01 Jul 1997

Organisations:
Queensland Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1977   978-0868195377

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/30903, AusStage

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Alfred the Incredible Sheepboy

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Various, Various Victorian Locations, Vic     01 Jan 1972

Organisations:
Melbourne University Student Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/85126, AusStage

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Amigos

Amigos
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.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Drama Theatre, Sydney, Nsw     03 Apr 2004

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia >>>,    978-0868197463

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/63030, AusStage

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At Any Cost?

At Any Cost?
Deals with delicate end-of-life issues, and the huge costs of keeping extremely ill patients alive

Notes:
Presented as part of the 2011 Noosa Long Weekend Festival as a 'rehearsed performance' ahead of its world premiere.

1st Produced:
The J Theatre, Noosa Heads, Qld     21 Jun 2011

Organisations:
Ensemble Theatre

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/92202, AusStage

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Audience Participation Bit

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
Australian Performing Group

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Stage Revue

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.Austlit.edu.au, http://www.Austlit.edu.au >>>,

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Birthrights

Birthrights
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.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Playhouse, Melbourne, Vic     12 Apr 2003

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia >>>,    978-0868196985

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/23796, AusStage

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Brilliant Lies

Brilliant Lies
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.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Suncorp Theatre, Brisbane, Qld     29 Apr 1993

Organisations:
Royal Queensland Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney,    978-0868193717

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/18303, AusStage

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Careers

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
Australian Performing Group

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Stage Revue

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.Austlit.edu.au, http://www.Austlit.edu.au >>>,

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Celluloid Heroes

Synopsis:
about Australian National Identity

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Nimrod Upstairs, Surry Hills, Nsw     02 Dec 1980

Organisations:
Nimrod Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
black comedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/6204, AusStage
Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.Austlit.edu.au, http://www.Austlit.edu.au >>>,

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Charitable Intent

Charitable Intent
This play focuses on the contradictions that erupt as workplace values change

Notes:
part of the Jack Manning Trilogy

1st Produced:
Athenaeum Theatre Two, Melbourne, Vic     16 Nov 2001

Organisations:
La Mama

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/25635, AusStage

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Club, The

Club, The
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.

Notes:
aka Players, Aka the Team

1st Produced:
Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne, Vic     24 May 1977

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia >>>, 1978   978-0868190136

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/5885, AusStage

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Coming of Stork, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
later became the short film Stork

1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, Vic     25 Sep 1970

Organisations:
La Mama

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1974   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/65062, AusStage

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Conversation, A

Conversation, A
Focuses on community conferencing. It revolves around the confrontation between the family of a rapist and murderer and the family of his victim.

Notes:
part of the Jack Manning Trilogy

1st Produced:
Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli, Nsw     05 Sep 2001

Organisations:
Ensemble Theatre

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  voice

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/7155, AusStage

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Corporate Vibes

Corporate Vibes
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.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Nsw     30 Jan 1999

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney,    978-0868196534

Music:
-

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Genre:
Farce

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/90365, AusStage

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Cruise Control

Cruise Control
In Cruise Control three philandering, bickering and workaholic couples board a cruise ship travelling from London to New York for seven days of marital healing

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Ensemble Theatre In Sydney     26 Apr 2014

Organisations:
-

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Dead White Males

Dead White Males
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?

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Drama Theatre, Sydney, Nsw     09 Mar 1995

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney,    978-0868194431

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/32179, AusStage

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Dealing With Abos

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
Australian Performing Group

1st Published:
in Collected plays 2, Currency Plays, Sydney,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Stage Revue

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Department, The

Department, The
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

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Playhouse, Adelaide, Sa     15 Nov 1974

Organisations:
South Australian Theatre Company Inc.

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1975   978-0868192871

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/22398, AusStage

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Don Parties On

Don Parties On
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.

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.

1st Produced:
Playhouse, Melbourne, Vic     08 Jan 2011

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/89529, AusStage

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Don's Party

Don's Party
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

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Pram Factory, Carlton, Vic     22 Jul 1971

Organisations:
Australian Performing Group

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1973   978-0868195308

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/65989, AusStage

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Dream Home

Dream Home
Dana and Paul finally have it all - creative careers, a baby on the way. . .and an apartment in Bondi. They can't quite believe their luck. As it turns out, they shouldn't. With an ex-lover, her jealous husband and a kleptomaniac for neighbours, things are bound to get complicated! This brand new comedy from David Williamson will have you laughing out loud at the true cost of buying property in Sydney.

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Organisations:
-

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Emerald City

Emerald City
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.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Drama Theatre, Sydney, Nsw     01 Jan 1987

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1987   978-0868191706

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/6, AusStage

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Face To Face

Face To Face
When Glen comes face to face with the employee who rammed his Mercedes, he must acknowledge some responsibility for a series of incidents which helped provoke the crime.

Notes:
part of the Jack Manning Trilogy

1st Produced:
Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli, Nsw     11 Mar 1999

Organisations:
Ensemble Theatre

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/13094, AusStage

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Flame Out

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
Australian Performing Group

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Stage Revue

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.Austlit.edu.au, http://www.Austlit.edu.au >>>,

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Flatfoot

Flatfoot
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

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli, Nsw     11 Jun 2004

Organisations:
Ensemble Theatre

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney,    978-0868197357

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/63238, AusStage

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Great Man, The

Great Man, The
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.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Drama Theatre, Sydney, Nsw     09 Mar 2000

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney,    978-0868196336

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/102852, AusStage

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Handful of Friends, A

Handful of Friends, A
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.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Playhouse Theatre, Perth, Wa     1976

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1976   978-0868192871

Music:
-

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Genre:
2 Act Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/18814, AusStage
Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.Austlit.edu.au, http://www.Austlit.edu.au >>>,

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Happiness

Happiness
Roland Makepeace knows what makes people happy. Why wouldn't he? He's an eminent professor of psychology who has devoted his life to scientifically investigating human well-being. But his theories are sorely tested when his wife meets an old suitor and his daughter threatens to go right off the rails. This sharply observed comedy suggests that theory can sometimes fall well short of reality and that finding happiness is easier said than done.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Ensemble Theatre In Sydney     09 May 2013

Organisations:
-

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Music:
-

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Heretic

Heretic
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

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Drama Theatre, Sydney, Nsw     28 Mar 1996

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
Penguin Books Australia 1996   978-0140261837

Music:
-

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Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/27536, AusStage

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Hire Purchase

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
Australian Performing Group

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Stage Revue

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Imperialism Sketch

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
Australian Performing Group

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Influence

Influence
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.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Drama Theatre, Sydney, Nsw     14 Mar 2005

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney,    978-0868197593

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Jack Of Hearts

Jack Of Hearts
in Jack of Hearts, Williamson has written his charm into a lovable loser who does his best to disprove the theory that nice guys always finish last.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Ensemble Theatre In Sydney     29 Jan 2016

Organisations:
-

1st Published:

Music:
-

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comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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-

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Jugglers Three

Synopsis:
Australian conscripts in the Vietnam War

Notes:
Rewritten As "Third World Blues"

1st Produced:
Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne, Vic     17 Jul 1972

Organisations:
Public Theatre Season

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1974   -

Music:
-

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One Act

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78308
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Bibliographies/VN_drama_bib.php

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King Lear

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-

Notes:
-

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-    

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-

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-   -

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-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  15            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.Austlit.edu.au, http://www.Austlit.edu.au >>>,

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Let the Sunshine

Let the Sunshine
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.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli, Nsw     14 May 2009

Organisations:
Ensemble Theatre

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/81566, AusStage

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Lotte's Gift

Synopsis:
Based on the memoirs and recollections of Lieselotte Reinke and the recollections of Isolde and Karin Schaupp and Trudy von Stein. Described as 'the poet of the guitar' Australian classical guitarist Karin Schapp is widely considered to be one of the most outstanding young guitarists on the international scene. This remarkabale journey punctuated with Karin's mood enhancing quitar playing, is the story of three generations of women. Karin, her mother Isolde and most importantly, her grandmother, Lotte.

Notes:
later version of Strings Under My Fingers

1st Produced:
Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli, Nsw     24 Jan 2007

Organisations:
Ensemble Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Managing Carmen

Managing Carmen
Brent Lyall is a freakish young sporting talent. At the age of twenty three he is already captain of one of the most powerful football clubs in the land. Managed by the legendary Rohan Swift, Brent's blossoming career, and the millions that come with it, seem assured. But Brent has an explosive secret which is on the verge of becoming public. So Rohan hires the brilliant psychologist Jessica to find out what Brent is trying to hide&but soon wishes he hadn't.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Playhouse, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane     13 Oct 2012

Organisations:
Queensland Theatre Company

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Money and Friends

Money and Friends
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.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Suncorp Theatre, Brisbane, Qld     28 Nov 1991

Organisations:
Royal Queensland Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney,    978-0868193144

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Nothing Personal

Nothing Personal
Two highly ambitious book publishing executives go head-to-head in an all-out war over the top job - and unsurprisingly in 2012 it's two women!

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli, Nsw     01 Dec 2011

Organisations:
Ensemble Theatre

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Black Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Operator

Operator
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.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli, Nsw     06 Jan 2005

Organisations:
Ensemble Theatre

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney,    978-0868197593

Music:
-

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Genre:
satire

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/65745, AusStage

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Perfectionist, The

Perfectionist, The
Modern marriage follows a pair of academics from Denmark to Sydney as they blunder along the rival paths of career and parenthood.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Drama Theatre, Sydney, Nsw     01 Sep 1981

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1983   978-0868190693

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Removalists, The

Removalists, The
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

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, Vic     22 Jul 1971

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1972   978-0868190389

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.Austlit.edu.au, http://www.Austlit.edu.au >>>,

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Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica

Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica
Two fortysomething lonely singles come together in a delightful romantic comedy

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli, Nsw     16 Sep 2010

Organisations:
Ensemble Theatre

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
romantic comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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-

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Rupert

Rupert
Australia's best-known playwright returns to MTC as we've never seen him before, using the greatest media scandal of modern times as the launchpad for a mavErick theatrical presentation. Rupert Murdoch was born in Melbourne to one of the most powerful families in the nation. Spanning most of Murdoch's lifetimefrom his early student days at Oxford to the most recent phone hacking scandal that rocked News Corp.Williamson asks who the real Rupert Murdoch is and tries to uncover what makes this complex and fascinating character tick. In the process Williamson peels back the facade and we glimpse the character of an apex predator' who almost single-handedly built a media empire that spans the entire globe.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse     24 Aug 2013

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre company

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
biographical play

Parts:
Male:  43            Female:  16            Other:  doubling possible

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-

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Sanctuary

Sanctuary
An investigative journalist returns to Australia to retire but a student working on his biography intervenes

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Cub Malthouse, Southbank, Vic     04 May 1994

Organisations:
Playbox Theatre Company (South Melbourne)

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
satire

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Scarlett O'Hara at the Crimson Parrot

Scarlett O'Hara at the Crimson Parrot
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.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Victorian Arts Centre Playhouse, Melbourne     07 Jun 2008

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Senator Ivor Greenwood's Speech

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
Australian Performing Group

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Stage Revue

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Sexual Follies

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, Vic     01 Jun 1970

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Siren

Siren
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.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Wharf Theatre, Walsh Bay, Nsw     09 Jul 1990

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney,    978-0868192826

Music:
-

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Genre:
Situation comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/2154, AusStage

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Song

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
Australian Performing Group

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Stage Revue

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.Austlit.edu.au, http://www.Austlit.edu.au >>>,

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Sons of Cain

Sons of Cain
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.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Playhouse, Melbourne, Vic     21 Mar 1985

Organisations:
Melbourne Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1985   978-0868191799

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Soulmates

Soulmates
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.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Drama Theatre, Sydney, Nsw     13 Apr 2002

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney,    978-0868196985

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/19816, AusStage

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Strings Under My Fingers

Synopsis:
the play focuses on the life of Karin Schaupp's real grandmother Lotte Reinke who lived through the Nazi era before moving to Australia.

Notes:
early version of Lotte's Gift

1st Produced:
Noosa Arts Theatre, Noosaville, Qld     16 Jun 2006

Organisations:
Noosa Long Weekend

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
biographical play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Terra Australis

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
Australian Performing Group

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Stage Revue

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.Austlit.edu.au, http://www.Austlit.edu.au >>>,

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Third World Blues

Third World Blues
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

Notes:
Rewrite of "Jugglers Three"

1st Produced:
Drama Theatre, Sydney, Nsw     13 Mar 1997

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia, Jan 1997   978-0868195209

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Top Silk

Top Silk
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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1st Produced:
York Theatre, Chippendale, Nsw     11 Jan 1989

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1989   978-0868192635

Music:
-

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Genre:
satire

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/1606, AusStage

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Travelling North

Travelling North
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

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1st Produced:
Nimrod Upstairs, Surry Hills, Nsw     22 Aug 1979

Organisations:
Nimrod Theatre Company

1st Published:
in Australian plays, Currency Press, Sydney   978-1854590565

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/6153, AusStage

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Up For Grabs

Up For Grabs
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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1st Produced:
Drama Theatre, Sydney, Nsw     01 Mar 2001

Organisations:
Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney,    978-0868196534

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/7246, AusStage

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Vic Market, The

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
Australian Performing Group

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Stage Revue

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.Austlit.edu.au, http://www.Austlit.edu.au >>>,

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What If You Died Tomorrow

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Drama Theatre, Sydney, Nsw     27 Sep 1973

Organisations:
Old Tote Theatre Company

1st Published:
Currency Press, Sydney, 1974   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/5654, AusStage

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When Dad Married Fury

When Dad Married Fury
This play has it all - the GFC, a billionaire, intense inheritance battles and a Tea-Party beauty queen!

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1st Produced:
Metcalfe Playhouse, Perth     22 Jul 2011

Organisations:
Janus Entertainment

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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You've Got to Get on Jack

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Notes:
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1st Produced:
La Mama, Carlton, Vic     01 Jun 1970

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/89054, AusStage

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