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David Keith Williamson AO (born 1942) is an Australian playwright, who has also written screenplays and teleplays. He became known in the early 1970s with his political comic drama Don's Party , and other well-known plays include The Club , Travelling North , and Emerald City .
A Handful of Friends is a 1976 play by David Williamson. [1]It was written for the South Australian Theatre Company. [2]Williamson said in an interview with Quadrant magazine that he had based one of the characters on Williamson's wife, Kristin, and another on his then-friend Bob Ellis. [3]
The Club is a satirical play by the Australian playwright David Williamson. It follows the fortunes of an Australian rules football club over the course of a season, and explores the clashes of individuals from within the club. [1] It was inspired by the backroom dealings and antics of the Victorian Football League's Collingwood Football Club.
The Great Divide is a 2024 Australian play by David Williamson. Background. It was written after his announced retirement. "I felt the urge to write again,” he said.
The Puzzle is a 2024 Australian play by David Williamson. [1] It will have its world premiere in Adelaide in 2024 with the State Theatre Company South Australia.. Williamson called it a comedy about how lives are continually disrupted, “and how infidelity and boredom can become the basis of human comedy and tragedy”.
The Department was commissioned by the inaugural artistic director of the State Theatre Company of South Australia, George Ogilvie, [3] and premiered in 1974 at the opening of the The Playhouse at the newly-built Adelaide Festival Centre.
Sanctuary is a 1994 play by Australian playwright David Williamson.He said "The play taps into the new radicalism among students in communications. They know about the power elite, come out breathing fire about the state of the Australian media and usually end up working for the major broadsheets."
Crunch Time is an Australian play by David Williamson. It had its world premiere in 2020. Williamson says it is about a family at crisis point, "a story of sibling rivalry and a story about dying." [1] It will be Williamson's final play before he retires. [2] "The 50 years really has marked the milestone for me," he said in 2020.