Plays

A boisterous comedy for all ages. Flatfoot (aka Roman playwright Titus) pops up in the twenty-first century, enraged to find his ideas have been plundered through the ages by everyone from Shakespeare to modern-day sitcom writers.

To prove his point, he takes us back to Ancient Rome, where he must convince Dives that his new play will be a hit, neither offending the Roman Censor nor imbuing the servants with fanciful ideas. When he is forced to improvise, pandemonium lurks just around the corner.

Cast : 2M, 1F…

The Great Man
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.

Cast : 4M, 3F

Sanctuary
An investigative journalist returns to Australia to retire. But the peace is broken by a visit from a student working on his biography.

Cast : 2M…

Influence
Ziggy Blasco knows how to turn fear into hate. A talk-back host whose power rests in his influence over his audience, he fills Sydney’s airwaves with his appeals to a particular brand of ‘common-sense’, his hard stance on terrorists and his lashings at political correctness. But in the private sphere, Ziggi’s influence is fading away. A scathing and bitingly funny play about the media personalities that dominate our lives and the divisions that can shatter families.

Operator
Young, charming and a go-getter, Jake is the ideal candidate for an executive position with a thriving local company. He’s welcomed aboard …

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.

A Conversation

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

Charitable Intent

Focuses on the pressures and contradictions that erupt as workplace values change.

Cast : Face to Face – 4M, 4F ; A Conversation – 2M, 6F ; Charitable Intent – 2M, 6F…

Peter, a mathematician who embodies niceness itself, is in financial trouble because of his brother’s bankruptcy. His neighbour Margaret decides to seek help from his friends who spend much of their time boasting about their wealth. But while his friends happily take advantage of Peter’s good nature in their own hour of need, how willing will they be to help him in his?

A revealing clash between materialism and ideals.

Cast : 5M, 4F…

Williamson’s continuing examination of modern marriage follows a pair of academics from Denmark to Sydney as they blunder along the rival paths of career and parenthood. Introduced by Rodney Fisher.

Cast : 3M, 2F…

A young policeman’s first day on duty becomes a violent and highly charged initiation into law enforcement. Remarkable for its blend of boisterous humour and horrifying violence, the play has acquired a reputation as a classic statement on Australian authoritarianism and is a key work in the study of Australian drama.

Cast : 4M, 2F…

Scarlett O’Hara a 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.

Let the Sunshine

What happens when people of widely different political views are forced to co-exist? Toby, a maker of hard-hitting …

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.

Cast : 5M, 2F…

Against a background of disintegrating marital relationships and emotional greed, a newspaper editor along with three investigative journalists takes on the Mr Bigs of the drug trade. The villain proves to be the nature of society itself.

Cast : 6M, 3F…

It’s election night 1969. Don and Kath, hope that there will be a change of government, and 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.

Williamson’s brilliant satire examines a society on the threshold of emerging from a generation of comfortable, conservative political and social values.

Cast : 6M, 5F…

Williamson revisits his early play Jugglers Three, set against the background of the Vietnam War and first performed in 1972.
Graham, a conscript, is just back from Vietnam and keen to see his wife Keren, a reunion complicated when Keren’s lover Neville arrives, followed by Neville’s pregnant wife. On top of this domestic comedy comes Graham’s reverberating question about the need tostop the war and the politics of protest.

A taut and dramtic work which combines the energy and biting satire of the early Williamson plays, with the craftsmanship of maturity.

Cast : 5M, 2F…