In Influence, Ziggi Blasco is a talk-back host whose power rests in his influence over his audience. He knows how to turn fear into hate. 

In Operator, Jake is the ideal candidate for an executive position with a thriving local company. But his skills at exploiting, manipulating and manoeuvring would put Machiavelli in the shade. 

In a moment of glory at the 1968 Olympics, an Australian rowing team known as 'The Four Amigos' won bronze. Thirty-five years later, only two of the Amigos keep in touch. Then, the third Amigo turns up, ready to expose all about their past. And so the games begin…

Birthrights is a bittersweet play about motherhood. 

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. 

In this trilogy, David Williamson explores community conferencing—a process which brings together the victims and the perpetrators of a crime in an attempt at some kind of reconciliation.

In Up for Grabs, Simone Allen likes to see herself as a prophet rather than a parasite, but when given the opportunity to sell one of the better Brett Whiteley paintings, her behaviour becomes less than angelic as the pressure mounts.

In Corporate Vibes, a real estate developer faces a staff mutiny.

Two plays that investigate the divergence of self-interest and truth in public life. Includes The Great Man and Sanctuary.

The plays in this volume were landmarks in the development of a rough new all-Australian theatre that celebrated the rude colour of Australian language and mores. It was a period of comedy and satire, but these plays reveal a sharp social criticism at work beneath the larrikinism.

Stephen has, with ill grace, returned home to his mother’s deathbed. As he and his sister rake through the family photographs and childhood memories, they find conflicting versions of their parents’ unhappy marriage.

Can an older male academic convert a young female student to a post-structural, post-patriarchal view of literature and seduce her at the same time?

Williamson turns his penetrating eye and sharply focused wit to issues of political correctness and sexual harassment. A serious comedy, Brilliant Lies is a stimulating contribution to the continuing debate on our changing social values.