The Club

Explore the Show

• The Club: An Illustrated Guide

  Before you see isthisyours? radical reinvention of The Club, let us walk you through some of the key ideas underpinning the production.

  Read the illustrated guide here.

• Video: What to Expect from The Club

• Interview: Experiencing the Club with Cassie Tongue

  “But I also think that if you’re trying to make something new out of an old comedy that maybe doesn’t work the way it used to, then you can make superficial changes to that but the real challenge is to put meaning back into it and make it speak to where we are now. isthisyours? and their new version of The Club did that. It found a way around what was old or, perhaps, dated about The Club and gave it back the bite underneath the jokes.”

  We sat down with one of Australia’s best theatre critics to chat through why she loved The Club. Read the full interview here.

• Video: Tessa Leong Introduces The Club

• Interview: David Williamson on the evolution of The Club

  “But part of the play also deals with bad male behaviour towards females… it wasn’t the main part of the play but it was certainly there. And no one is better to skewer bad male behaviour towards women than women!”

  We talk to the legendary writer about what it’s like to see his work reinvented forty years since it’s premiere.

  Read the full interview here.

   

• Video: Taking on an Aussie Classic

  Nadia Rossi and Ellen Steele take us through how they’re changing David Williamson’s classic play.

• Video: Falling in Love with Williamson

• Video: Getting into Character

   

  Nadia Rossi and Ellen Steele talk about the process of embodying some of Australian theatre’s most infamous men.

• Interview: Dr Susan Mitchell Revisits The Club

  “There are no female characters in this play. It’s an all-male club, namely a football club. But women are mentioned all the time throughout. There are no female characters literally written into this play, but they have a presence onstage that hangs over the action. They are very much a part of it.”

  We were digging through our show archives when we came across the program for our 1997 production of David Williamson’s The Club. While flipping through the pages we came across a reading of the play from a feminist perspective by Dr Susan Mitchell. We got in touch to see what an all-female, three-actor version of the show means for her understanding of Williamson’s classic comedy. Read the full interview here

• Interview: Tessa Leong and Rosalba Clemente

  “I guess a question we have is- when women of the AFLW have the power, money and glory that the AFLM players currently have- how will they behave? Will the AFLW Integrity Commission be as busy as the AFLM one? Will the AFLW need a ‘gender adviser’?”

  The first female director of The Club and the first director of an all-female version of The Club sit down to talk about the ongoing relevance of Williamson’s classic play.

  Read the full interview here

• Director

  Tessa Leong

• Designer

  Renate Henschke

• Lighting Designer

  Susan Grey-Gardner
  

• Composer and Sound Designer

  Catherine Oates

• Lighting Design Secondment

  Meg Wilson

• Cast Includes

  Louisa Mignone, Nadia Rossi and Ellen Steele