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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Elissa Blake

David Williamson: ‘Australian drama has ignored the elephant in the room – we’re an unfair and unequal society’

Australian playwright David Williamson in the Sydney botanic gardens
Australian playwright David Williamson – the least retired 82-year-old you’ll ever meet – in the Sydney botanic gardens. Photograph: Isabella Moore

It’s 10am and the sun is already bouncing hard off the Sydney Opera House forecourt where I’m due to meet one of Australia’s most prolific and awarded writers for stage and screen.

David Williamson arrives on cue and is hard to miss. A head-and-something taller than the throng of sightseers and tour groups, he looms over the shirtless joggers gleaming in the sun and kids on bikes weaving through the crowds. He politely skirts past a photoshoot bride clutching an unruly bunch of sunburst dahlias.

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