David Williamson Plays
Drew, an middle aged suburban accountant with an not all that interesting life decides to try and reconnect with his lively 27 year old daughter by taking her on a cruise. Unfortunately he doesn’t realise that the so called “Lifestyle cruise” he has booked is the code word for a swinger’s cruise. When he and his daughter Connie’s lives become entangled with two couples looking to spice up their lives everything that can go wrong does.
Cast: 3M, 3F
Penny Poulter leads an almost idyllic life in one of Australia’s best kept secrets, Wallis Heads, but the ruthless and uber wealthy Alex Whittle is on her way to turn it into the next Gold Coast. Can the human bulldozer ever be stopped
Cast: 2M, 4F
A symphony of discord erupts at Monique’s annual gathering to celebrate the birthday of her three adored sons and their not so adored wives. The wives have to endure not so subtle put downs and then an Aria sung by Monique to remind them of her supposed talent. This year the wives have finally had enough.
Cast: 3M, 4F
Retired Federal Court Judge, Roger Collins hopes to celebrate his 70th birthday with his wife and three children. When his activist daughter turns up with Saba, an Iranian refugee on the run from Border Force and demands the keys of his holiday house to hide her, all hell breaks loose.
Cast: 2M, 5F
Chrissie is working as an ambulance Paramedic when the Service’s director discovers that her qualifications are totally faked. He’s appalled. Lives have been put at risk for four years. Or have they?
As Chrissie tells him her life story, he realises that things are a little more complex, and reflects on how her life contrasts with that of his own spoiled middle class daughter.
Cast: 4M, 3F
Nearer the Gods:
Isaac Newton fights his own inner demons and the power brokers of the Royal Society to prove his astonishingly brilliant theory of Universal Gravitation. Huge egos clash and drama and black humour abound, and finally it’s only the courage and persistence of the Astronomer Edmund Halley and his wife Mary, that make this great leap forward in human knowledge happen.
Cast: 7M, 2F
Sorting out Rachel:
A social comedy about greed, legacy, entitlement, hidden family secrets, and the long overdue repair of fractured relationships.
Cast: 3F, 2M
The Big Time:
Best friends and partners are put to the test in a satirical comedy set in the celebrity world of TV, Film and Theatre.
Cast: 3F, 3M
Odd Man Out:
A couple navigate the emotional terrain of a new relationship which turns out to be less typical then either of them expect.
Cast: 4F, 3M
Williamson tackles the rise and rise of ex-Australian citizen and one of the planet’s most powerful, influential and feared men, Rupert Murdoch.
He asks who the real Rupert Murdoch is and tries to uncover what makes this complex and fascinating character tick.
Cast : 5M, 3F
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.
Cast : 3M, 6F
In a moment of glory at the 1968 Olympics, an Australian rowing team known as ‘The Four Amigos’ won bronze. It was lifetime bonding material.
Or so it seemed. Thirty-five years later only two of the Amigos keep in touch. Jim is a wealthy banker with a young, beautiful wife and seems to have it all. His friend Dick, a heart surgeon, has something that Jim covets: a sterling reputation. When the two mates meet up in Port Douglas with their wives, they have competing personal agendas. Then Steven, a third Amigo, turns up, ready to expose the past.
A savagely funny play that hinges on the subtle aggression and unacknowledged dependencies of male friendship — and the angst and irritation created for those on the sidelines.
Cast : 3M, 2F
Birthrights
A bittersweet play about motherhood.
At twenty-nine, 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 when she agrees to be a surrogate mother. But what happens when, years later, Claudia discovers that she and her husband Martin cannot conceive and that Kelly, the child she gave to her sister, is the only baby she will ever bear?
Cast : 2M, 4F
Soulmates
Williamson applies his merciless humour to the literary world in a play about the slippery business of books, authors, and the readers who love them both. Commerce competes with art; serious writing with popular writing.
Set in Melbourne and New York, this 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.