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Australia\u2019s most prolific playwright has come out of retirement and has his finger on the pulse, addressing the cost-of-living crisis.\u00a0The title of his play refers to the haves and have nots in society.\u00a0When David Williamson was a boy in the 1950s, the difference in salary between a worker and a managing director rarely exceeded fivefold.\u00a0Now the ratio is more like a factor of 200. Home ownership is but a pipedream for most.<\/p>\n

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Photos by Brett Boardman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, to the contention of The Great Divide:\u00a0We\u2019re in the Queensland coastal town of Wallis Heads.\u00a0It a sleepy hollow that has huge growth potential according to Australia\u2019s richest woman, ruthless property developer Alex Whittle (Georgie Parker).\u00a0Land that council had earmarked for social housing is now likely to go to Whittle, in exchange for $30 million, money that will be used to created new council chambers.\u00a0She intends to build a golf course and country club, as well as luxury residences.<\/p>\n

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She faces opposition from intelligent, single supermarket working mother Penny Poulter (Emma Diaz).\u00a0Poulter is intent on retaining the essence of the community in which she has grown up.\u00a0She knows if Whittle\u2019s project is given the green light, the town will become the domain of the well-to-do, its basic character changed forever.\u00a0But Whittle is prepared to use every dirty trick in the book to get her way. She has never lost a fight and takes it as read that she can buy her way out of trouble.<\/p>\n

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Caught up in all of this is pragmatic Mayor Alan Bridger (John Wood) and the owner and editor of the town\u2019s local paper, Brian (James Lugton).\u00a0Then there is Whittle\u2019s long serving and long suffering personal assistant Grace Delahunty (Kate Raison).\u00a0That\u2019s not to forget Poulter\u2019s 17-year-old talented surfer daughter, Rachel (Caitlin Burley), who frequently locks horns with her mother.\u00a0And so the battle for the heart and soul of Wallis Heads become an almighty scrap.<\/p>\n

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David Williamson shows again why he is such a highly regarded writer, one who is not afraid to poke the bear.\u00a0There is no pretense about him. His language is incendiary and he quickly gets to the heart of an issue.\u00a0Under Mark Kilmurry\u2019s direction, The Great Divide maintains a cracking pace, with twists aplenty, especially in the first act.\u00a0The pithy one-liners come thick and fast, with humour aplenty.<\/p>\n

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The cast that delivers in spades is a beauty.\u00a0Georgie Parker shows why playing the villain is often the best role you can get, as she gleefully spruiks vitriol, her language fruity.\u00a0Slowly and deliberately, with a great deal of gravitas, John Wood as the Mayor knows just which side his bread is buttered.\u00a0Emma Diaz brings passion and conviction to the socially responsible Penny, while the fight in Caitlin Burley, as daughter Rachel, is palpable.\u00a0As Grace Delahunty, Kate Raison is driven by revenge.\u00a0Knowing that the paper is on the verge of bankruptcy, James Lugton deftly straddles the positions of newsman and proprietor.<\/p>\n

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I was thoroughly engaged and entertained by The Great Divide, which works its way to what I perceived to be its inevitable conclusion.\u00a0Having said that, I would have liked a shock at the end, to upturn the expected.\u00a0The benefit of that would also have been to add to the social discourse, which is the essence of a piece like this.\u00a0Still, as it is, The Great Divide remains compelling, a pointed commentary on the situation in which we find ourselves in the first quarter of the 21st<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

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With a running time of two hours, including a 20-minute interval, it is playing at Ensemble Theatre until 27th<\/sup>April, 2024.<\/p>\n

Alex First<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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