David Williamson

An ELT course in American English for East Asian adults and young adults.

Of the four Amigos who won a rowing bronze at the Mexico Olympics, three are still alive. They and their wives come together for a two week holiday in paradise. This book also reveals the discord between them and the need to settle a few old scores, but amid all these differences, they manage to remain mates.

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 for her sister as a surrogate. 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? In 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 in which best-selling expatriate author Katie Best engineers a scheme to bring her most craven critic Danny O'Loughlin undone.

Explores community conferencing - a process bringing together the victims and perpetrators of a crime to attempt some kind of reconciliation. This title features: "Face to Face"; "A Conversation"; and, "Charitable Intent".

Art dealers: parasites or prophets? Simone Allen would prefer to see herself as the latter, but when she is given the opportunity of her career, a chance to sell one of the better Whiteleys, her behaviour becomes less than angelic as the pressure mounts. Driven sometimes by greed, sometimes by aesthetics, Williamson's characters discover how far they will go when more than just a beautiful work of art is 'Up for Grabs' in this sexy comedy of manners. (3 men, 4 women). Sam, the victim of 'Corporate Vibes', is a real estate developer, a self-made man who gets his way by shouting. When his staff mutiny, he finds himself confronted by a softly-spoken mediator and a demand for building which 'delight the eye' -- the stage is set for a vintage farce. (3 men, 4 women).

Stephen and Judy's lives and outlooks could not be further apart, but they are brother and sister. When they are reunited at the bedside of their dying mother, family memories painfully and mercilessly return. This play is a critical look at Australian surburban life from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Postmodernism versus Liberal Humanism (2 acts, 4 men, 7 women).

An examination of marriage which follows a pair of academics from Denmark to Sydney as they blunder along the rival paths of career and parenthood (2 acts, 3 men, 2 women).

Williamson's famous play about the uses and abuses of managerial power, which in 1976 foreshadowed the great changes that Australian football has since endured, proves even more prescient since the rise and fall of Super League. This is a play set behind the scenes, a head-on tackle of brawn versus bureaucracy.

Set during an election night party, Don's guests pursue the rituals of courtship and sexual competitiveness as a means of coping with the insecurities of their own empty lives. This satire examines a society emerging from a generation of comfortable, conservative political and social values.