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After The Ball (play)
''After the Ball'' is a play by Australian playwright David Williamson, published by Currency Press in 1997. Williamson wrote the play in response to his mother's death. Plot The play is about Stephen, who 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. Background The play was partly inspired by the death of Williamson's mother in 1995. First Production ''After the Ball'' was first produced by Queensland Theatre Company at the Suncorp Theatre, Brisbane, on 3 July 1997 with the following cast: *Kate Macrae (older): Penny Everingham *Judy Macrae (older): Jennifer Flowers *Stephen Macrae (older): Bille Brown *Ron Macrae: Max Gillies *Kate Macrae (younger): Carol Burns *Judy Macrae (younger) / nurse: Melissa McMahon *Stephen Macrae (younger): Anthony Weigh *Claire Cummins: Gael Ballantyne *Maureen Donahue: Sally McKenzie * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Williamson
David Keith Williamson Officer of the Order of Australia, AO (born 24 February 1942) is an Australians, Australian dramatist and playwright. He has also written screenplays and teleplays. Early life David Williamson was born in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, on 24 February 1942, and was brought up in Bairnsdale. He initially studied mechanical engineering at the University of Melbourne from 1960, but left and graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1965. His early forays into the theatre were as an actor and writer of skits for the Engineers' Revue at Melbourne University's Union Theatre at lunchtime during the early 1960s, and as a satirical sketch writer for Monash University student reviews and the Emerald Hill Theatre Company. After a brief stint as design engineer for Holden, GM Holden, Williamson became a lecturer in mechanical engineering and thermodynamics at Swinburne University of Technology (then Swinburne Technical Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |