THE REMOVALISTS A PLAY BY DAVID WILLIAMSON

             "The Removalists" is widely thought to be Australia's most acknowledged plays and it has created a very disputatious and a very "Australian" glance of Australian society during the early 1970's. David Williamson's "The Removalists" is about power: people who gain power, people who lose power and those who misuse and abuse power. Everybody knows that without power they are not counted in today's society. In this play people react to the power of choice in very different ways. The men in the play explore their own sources of power through sexual intimidation and physical violence. The tensions between the characters in "The Removalists" and their various types of power along with a strong sense of realism create an extraordinarily confronting piece of theatre.
             David William's play is a very naturalistic piece of work even though essentially "The Removalists" was not meant to be a realist play; it was a very dark satire on the worst aspects of Australian male behavior. He draws an image on how different lifestyles, situations and backgrounds vary the way that people talk and the words that are used. When the play was first shown the language shocked the viewers as though no one spoke like this but that wasn't true the spoken word that was used in the play was fairly common. The spoken word refers to the way people speak and the many variations and styles according to the speaker's background, situation and lifestyle. Human speech is a strange and sometimes confusing thing. One word can have many different. It is the same case with the way things are said for example sarcasm can make a sentence mean the exact opposite of what the words themselves mean. There are quite a few reason why the language might seem different to some people. It could be their status in society is different to the status of the characters in the play. Location would also contribute t...

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