David Williamson. Essay dealing with themes/ideas in Williamson's "The Club" and "The Removalists"

Part A In his play The Club, David Williamson presents numerous Australian attitudes of the 1970s. However, many of these attitudes are still relevant and fairly accurate representations of Australian attitudes in the 1990s, although some of course have changed somewhat over the time since the play was written nearly twenty years ago.         Tradition plays a very important part in The Club. Each of the characters of course has his own ideas and attitudes towards …

…disobeys Simmonds' orders to shut up even though he knows it will result in further bashing. Such anti-authoritarian attitudes can be in some ways regarded as typically Australian.         The Removalists expresses a number of attitudes about Australian society including those regarding police brutality and corruption, domestic violence, law and order, and anti-authoritarianism. The majority of ideas presented about these are accurate representations of the attitudes held by most Australians, and are very relevant, even today.