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Kings & Queens: National Portrait Gallery by David Williamson
Category: Art and Design
David Williamson's text paints a vivid and sensitive portrait of each monarch, revealing the dramatic events and controversies that surrounded them. Enlivened with anecdotes and complemented by a rich selection of images, comprehensive fact boxes and clear family trees, National Portrait Gallery Kings & ...Show more
Let the Sunshine / Scarlett O'Hara by David Williamson
Category: Plays & Scripts
Scarlett is a 36-year-old waitress who lives with her mother, has no boyfriend, and spends too much time watching old romantic movies. As Scarlett drifts deeper into her reveries of Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Errol Flynn and Humphrey Bogart, she takes her place as the heroine in each of their movies. Let ...Show more
Rupert by David Williamson
Category: Poetry
David Williamson tackles the rise and rise of ex-Australian citizen and one of the planet's most powerful, influential and feared men, Rupert Murdoch. Spanning most of Murdoch's lifetime, Williamson asks who the real Rupert Murdoch is and tries to uncover what makes this complex and fascinating characte ...Show more
The Club by David Williamson
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Plays Ser.
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 bure ...Show more
The Great Man: AND Sanctuary by David Williamson
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: PLAYS
Two plays that investigate the divergence of self-interest and truth in public life. The Great Man (1 act: 4 men, 3 women) -- Jack Barclay, great man of the Australian Labour Party, is dead. And with him has died the last remaining connection to the social reforms of 1970s Labour governments. New Labour ...Show more
The Jack Manning Trilogy by David Williamson
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Plays Ser.
Australia's most popular playwright explores community conferencing, a process bringing together the victims and perpetrators of a crime to attempt some kind of reconciliation. This trilogy reveals that courage and forgiveness run deeper in the human psyche than many cynics would have us believe.
The Perfectionist by David Williamson
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Plays
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).
The Removalists by David Williamson
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Plays
A young policeman's first day on duty becomes a violent initiation into the nastier aspects of law enforcement (2 acts, 4 men, 2 women).
The Removalists by David Williamson
Category: Audio Books
A young policeman’s first day on duty becomes a violent and highly charged initiation into law enforcement.
Top Silk by David Williamson
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Plays Ser.
A legal aid solicitor and a prominent barrister battle over their individual careers and the future of their teenage son (2 acts, 7 men, 3 women).
Up For Grabs by Williamson David
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Plays
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 aesthetic ...Show more