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| | David Williamson: The Club |
 | | He is, in a non-pejorative sense, an old-fashioned playwright; his plays are not avant-garde in their forms or expectations, and only in his unexpurgated dialogue does he take any developed advantage of the freedoms won for his generation of writers. |
 | | Gerry, the club administrator, is a cool Machiavellian with polished cheeks; Ted, the president, is all comic bluster; Jock is a tough old relic of a particular kind of pre-war bluntness, who likes to scheme but hasn't the head for it. |
 | | These are men playing, in different ways, the same games; their attitudes are complicated by the internal conflicts among the six players, and the tendency of those standpoints to shift with the action. |
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