Dead White Males

…are Travelling North (1980) and Dead White Males (1995). Other playwrights who came into prominence were Jack Hibberd, Alex Buzo, Peter Kenna, Louis Nowra, Steve J. Spears, and Michael Gow. Nowra’s Così (1992) was successfully adapted for film.

Two of Williamson’s later plays, Dead White Males (1995) and Heretic (1996), contain historical characters; the former play includes William Shakespeare in a confrontation with modern-day scholars of his work, and Heretic is Williamson’s account of the conflict between anthropologists Margaret Mead and Derek Freeman over the nature of humanity.…