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Russell Fewster, Lecturer in Performing Arts, University of South Australia

With The Puzzle, David Williamson shows his continual capacity to satirise the middle-class

Matt Byrne/State Theatre Company South Australia

Fun, sex, Renoir and a reckoning might be a succinct way to introduce the new play by David Williamson, The Puzzle. As Williamson noted to me in the foyer, “life would be pretty boring without sex”. However, he writes, in the production program that this comes with a proviso that licentiousness without any moral grounding can lead to human beings inadvertently “upending their lives”.

In other words: be grateful for what you’re got.

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