Currency Press, 2002

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Roles: Total (9), Female (5), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...A Conversation revolves around the confrontation between the family of a rapist and murderer, and the family of his victim. It is part of The Jack Manning Trilogy, in which David Williamson explores community conferencing...

Currency Press, 2013

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (8), Female (5), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...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...

Currency Press, 2003

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 29, Roles: Total (6), Female (4), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Birthrights is 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 when she bears a child...

Currency Press, 1993

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Williamson turns his penetrating eye and sharply focused wit to issues of political correctness and sexual harassment. A serious comedy, Brilliant Lies is a stimulating contribution to the continuing debate on our changing social values...

Currency Press, 2002

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Roles: Total (8), Female (4), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Charitable Intent focuses on the pressures and contradictions that erupt as workplace values change. It is part of The Jack Manning Trilogy, in which David Williamson explores community conferencing—a process which brings together...

Currency Press, 2016

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...David Williamson is the most popular, prolific and produced playwright in Australian history. These four comedies consolidate his place as a great dramatic entertainer. Williamson turns his unflinching gaze on the foibles and follies...

Currency Press, 2011

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (9), Female (5), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...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...

Currency Press, 1997

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (11), Female (6), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...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...

Currency Press, 2016

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (7), Female (4), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...David Williamson is the most popular, prolific and produced playwright in Australian history. These four comedies consolidate his place as a great dramatic entertainer. Williamson turns his unflinching gaze on the foibles and follies...

Currency Press, 1987

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...A fast-moving, wisecracking commentary on contemporary urban mores and morals, and the rivalries and passions to be encountered on the road to success. Married couple Colin, a screenwriter, and Kate, a publisher, move to the 'Emerald City',...

Currency Press, 2002

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Roles: Total (10), Female (2), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...When Glen comes face to face with the employee who rammed his Mercedes, he must acknowledge some responsibility for a series of incidents that helped provoke the crime. Face to Face is part of The Jack Manning...

Currency Press, 2016

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (7), Female (2), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...David Williamson is the most popular, prolific and produced playwright in Australian history. These four comedies consolidate his place as a great dramatic entertainer. Williamson turns his unflinching gaze on the foibles and follies...

Currency Press, 2005

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 20, Roles: Total (7), Female (4), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...In Influence, Ziggi 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...

Currency Press, 2016

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (7), Female (4), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...David Williamson is the most popular, prolific and produced playwright in Australian history. These four comedies consolidate his place as a great dramatic entertainer. Williamson turns his unflinching gaze on the foibles and follies...

Currency Press, 2009

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...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...

Currency Press, 2019

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 1, Roles: Total (14), Female (3), Male (11), Unassigned (0)

...Australia's most well-known playwright, David Williamson, returns with four new plays—three comedies that demonstrate his continued skill at tapping into the zeitgeist, alongside a sweeping historical drama. In Nearer the Gods,...

Currency Press, 2019

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (8), Female (4), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Australia's most well-known playwright, David Williamson, returns with four new plays—three comedies that demonstrate his continued skill at tapping into the zeitgeist, alongside a sweeping historical drama. In Odd Man Out...

Currency Press, 2005

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...In Operator, charming young go-getter Jake is the ideal candidate for an executive position with a thriving local company. He's welcomed aboard by his hardworking boss and co-worker Melissa, who has all the intelligence, industry...

Currency Press, 2013

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Acts: 2

...In his latest play, Rupert, Australia's best-known and multi-award-winning playwright David Williamson tackles the rise of an ex-Australian citizen and one of the planet's most powerful, influential and feared men, Rupert Murdoch...

Currency Press, 2000

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (2), Female (0), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...In Sanctuary, an investigative journalist returns to Australia to retire, but a student working on his biography intervenes...