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One of Australia's Living National Treasures and its best known and most widely performed playwright, David Williamson brings us five of his latest works. Age has not wearied him, and indeed this collection exemplifies Williamson's uncanny ability to be timely, relevant and thoroughly modern.
As director Sandra Bates notes in her introduction, Williamson is unique in Australian theatre because of 'his ability to see and understand Australia's current circumstances, our society's circumstances right here, right now; indeed to be ahead of what is current'.
At Any Cost?: Deals with delicate end-of-life issues, and the huge costs of keeping extremely ill patients alive.
Managing Carmen: A secretively cross-dressing AFL superstar threatens lucrative advertising dollars.
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!
Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica: Two 40-something lonely singles come together in a delightful romantic comedy.
When Dad Married Fury: This play has it all'the GFC, a billionaire, intense inheritance battles and a Tea Party beauty queen!
David Williamson
David Williamson is one of Australia's best known and most widely performed playwrights and one of Australia's leading screenwriters. His dramas have been produced by all the major Australian theatre companies and have been translated into many languages and performed internationally. David has directed eight professional productions of his own work and written many radio dramas. He has also written (or co-written) scripts for fifteen feature films, including the original screenplays for Petersen, Eliza Fraser (starring Susannah York), Gallipoli and The Year of Living Dangerously (both starring Mel Gibson), Phar Lap, and Balibo (with Robert Connolly). His movie adaptations of his own plays include The Removalists, Don's Party, The Club, Travelling North, Emerald City and Sanctuary, and for television he adapted The Department, The Perfectionist, A Dangerous Life and On the Beach, and wrote The Four Minute Mile.
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