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Name David Williamson
Birth Year 1942
Comments Writer

Graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Monash University in Melbourne. Lectured in thermodynamics and social psychology at Swinbourne Institute of Technology until 1973.

He wrote a number of short plays before he eventually had his first full length play performed by the Australian Performing Group (Pram Factory) at La Mama theatre in Carlton, Melbourne. This play 'The Coming of Stork', opened on the 25th of September 1970. Directed by Alan Finney and Martin Phelan, the play stared Bruce Spence as Stork who was to play the role again when Tim Burstall transformed it into the film 'Stork'. The play and the film where hugely sucessful and Williamson was soon to become Australia's most prominant theatre/film writer.

His next major play 'The Removalists' also premiered at La Mama Theatre (22nd July, 1971) and again included Bruce Spence in the cast.

Don's Party wich was also to be turned into a film later in the 70's, premeired on 11th of August 1971 at the new APG theatre in Carlton, the Pram Factory.

'Williamson left the APG, whose ideology proved unable to encompass material success...[1973]'(Katherine Brisbane in 'David Williamson: Collected Plays Volume 1. p.ix)

Plays include:
The Coming of Stork
The Removalists
Don's Party
Jugglers Three
What if I Died Tomorrow
The Club
The Department
A Handful of Friends
Travelling North
Celluloid Heroes
The Perfectionist
Sons of Cain
Emerald City
Top Silk
Siren

Williamson has won numerous awards for his screenplays and plays.
Brilliant Lies
After the Ball

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