David Williamson's The Club

The boardroom becomes a battleground when the purchase of a new recruit pits the disgruntled head coach against club President. In the heat of battle, the players threaten a team wide strike and a club legend will use the opportunity to usurp the presidency for himself. Whilst the men each fight for power and control of the Club’s on and off field destiny, the game’s best administrator watches his Machiavellian scheme unfold. Each man will face his truth. Only the strong will survive. But will The Club?

One of Australia’s most beloved plays, The Club is an iconic masterpiece from our greatest playwright, David Williamson. The Club has been revived for a limited four show run for Brisbane audiences, bringing a dramatic yet side-splittingly humorous look at the dawn of the professional sports era in Australian Rules football.

Featuring some of the most memorable characters to ever grace Australian stages, The Club will transport you to back to the 70’s—a time when the ethos of big business had only just started to infiltrate our national game and threatened to leave a veritable trail of crushed egos and shattered dreams in its wake.

Delivered at a frenetic laugh-a-minute pace, The Club is not just a hilarious romp about footy, it’s a time capsule piece that illuminates Australia as it was, half a century ago.