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31 Aug 2001 – 15 Sept 2001August 2001
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Details
- Playwright
- David Williamson
- Director
- Grant Malcolm
AddressDolphin Theatre, UWA, Nedlands
As part of the centenary of federation celebrations and marking the 30th anniversary of this classic play that shocked the nation, the Graduate Dramatic Society brings David Williamson's triumphant play to life on the Dolphin stage this August and September.
Opening on 11th August 1971, Don's Party was greeted by raves in the Australian press and was lauded by audiences across the nation - well, except for a few "poofters with pokers up their arses".
"Williamson's interest is in middle-class mores and values. Specifically he is interested in the educated members of that class - not those fresh out of university but some ten years after, when their ideals, like their marriages, have begun to crumble, when boredom has set in and all are looking for ways to renew their flagging zest..." Leonard Radic, The Age 1971
"a warning - and I mean this. This is NOT for the squeamish... It has, continuously, more four-letter words, etc. than any play I know. It has long, very explicit passages of talk about sex, sexual organs, perversion, excretion - and politics." H.G. Kippax, Sydney Morning Herald 1972
"On the surface it is a party like any other. In fact the action is full of shocks; the comedy is a gag a line. But the sheer joy of the play lies in the people themselves: familiar, funny and real." Katherine Brisbane, The Australian 1972
" Behind its magnificent bawdiness and gross humors, its earthy language and drunken sexuality, Don's Party is a serious study of suburban Australia. It concerns the eroded and tarnished idealism of left-wing intellectuals caught in the mesh of a materialist society. It is a study of failure. Its poignancy stems from the desperate attempts of the characters to maintain a pose of progressiveness in a framework of mateship against all the overwhelming trivia of middle-class suburban life - children, school bills, mortgages... the lot." David Thorpe, Nation Review 1973
And time has served only to endear the play to us!
"...Don's Party is a raucously funny play with a ferocious vulgarity that is still unsettling, for a new set of puritanical reasons. When Don and Kath invite a few friends over they don't realise they will start coming on like a cross between the cast of Uncle Vanya and a Carry On movie." The Australian, 1997
"'Don's Party, far from being an antiquated cultural time-piece with purely historical value, is still a vital, funny and sharply observed play about Australian life at the precipice of a most important period in this country's growth. " Db Magazine, 1997
David Williamson's Don's Party plays for only three short weeks finishing 15th September. Don't miss it!
BOOKINGS: 9451 3799
Opening on 11th August 1971, Don's Party was greeted by raves in the Australian press and was lauded by audiences across the nation - well, except for a few "poofters with pokers up their arses".
"Williamson's interest is in middle-class mores and values. Specifically he is interested in the educated members of that class - not those fresh out of university but some ten years after, when their ideals, like their marriages, have begun to crumble, when boredom has set in and all are looking for ways to renew their flagging zest..." Leonard Radic, The Age 1971
"a warning - and I mean this. This is NOT for the squeamish... It has, continuously, more four-letter words, etc. than any play I know. It has long, very explicit passages of talk about sex, sexual organs, perversion, excretion - and politics." H.G. Kippax, Sydney Morning Herald 1972
"On the surface it is a party like any other. In fact the action is full of shocks; the comedy is a gag a line. But the sheer joy of the play lies in the people themselves: familiar, funny and real." Katherine Brisbane, The Australian 1972
" Behind its magnificent bawdiness and gross humors, its earthy language and drunken sexuality, Don's Party is a serious study of suburban Australia. It concerns the eroded and tarnished idealism of left-wing intellectuals caught in the mesh of a materialist society. It is a study of failure. Its poignancy stems from the desperate attempts of the characters to maintain a pose of progressiveness in a framework of mateship against all the overwhelming trivia of middle-class suburban life - children, school bills, mortgages... the lot." David Thorpe, Nation Review 1973
And time has served only to endear the play to us!
"...Don's Party is a raucously funny play with a ferocious vulgarity that is still unsettling, for a new set of puritanical reasons. When Don and Kath invite a few friends over they don't realise they will start coming on like a cross between the cast of Uncle Vanya and a Carry On movie." The Australian, 1997
"'Don's Party, far from being an antiquated cultural time-piece with purely historical value, is still a vital, funny and sharply observed play about Australian life at the precipice of a most important period in this country's growth. " Db Magazine, 1997
David Williamson's Don's Party plays for only three short weeks finishing 15th September. Don't miss it!
BOOKINGS: 9451 3799
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