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David Williamson
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Williamson's famous play about the uses and abuses of managerial power, which in 1976 foreshadowed the great changes that Australian football has since endured, proves even more prescient since the rise and fall of Super League. This is a play set behind the scenes; a head-on tackle of brawn versus bureaucracy.Also available in David Williamson's Collected Plays Volume II.
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GERRY COOPER, lean, alert, in his middle thirties, sits on the table smoking, a folder in one hand. TED PARKER enters from left. He is small, pudgy, manic, nervous, in his early forties.
TED: Good.
GERRY: Good what?
TED: Good that youâre early.
GERRY: Always early.
TED: Going to be tough.
GERRY: What?
TED: (more clearly) Going to be tough.
GERRY: Who? Laurie?
TED: No. The whole business. Going to be awkward. Itâll have to be handled carefully. My first impulse is to blast hell out of him. Really blast hell out of him. Heâs hurt me, Gerry, and Iâm angry. Really angry, but I think itâs much better if I stay cool. Donât you think so? Better to stay cool?
GERRY: If you stay as cool as you are now weâre all in trouble. Calm down.
TED: Sometimes it takes more courage to hand out the olive branch than to jump in boots and all. Iâm not going to smile and pretend that it didnât happen mind you, but Iâm going to stay cool.
GERRY: Calm down.
TED: I could use a drink.
GERRY: Grab a bottle of Scotch from next door.
TED nods and goes out, right.
TED: (off) Howâs June?
GERRY: Sick.
TED: (off) Thatâs great. Sick?
GERRY: Mmm.
TED re-enters with a bottle of Scotch and two glasses.
TED: Whatâs she got?
GERRY: âFlu.
TED: Thereâs going to be a new âflu strain in the next ten years thatâs going to wipe out nine tenths of the world population.
GERRY: Yeah?
TED: I read it in the Sunday papers.
GERRY: Thatâll test Medibank.
TED pours them each a whisky. The left door opens and LAURIE HOLDEN comes in. LAURIE is a tall well-built man in his middle forties. There is an awkward silence. TED inclines the whisky bottle towards LAURIE. LAURIE declines.
TED: Iâm sorry itâs come to this, Laurie.
LAURIE: So am I.
There is another awkward pause.
June better yet, Gerry?
GERRY: Improving, thanks, Laurie.
LAURIE: Give her my love.
GERRY: Will do.
TED: Thanks for coming, Laurie. The Committee thought it might be better if we tried to thrash this out privately before tonightâs meeting.
LAURIE: Fine.
TED: The Committee wants to see if you and I can settle our differences, Laurie. They donât want to accept your resignation.
GERRY: I thought Iâd come along to see if I can act as an impartial sounding board for you both. Jock was going to come along and lend a hand too, but as usual heâs late.
LAURIE: Jock? Lend a hand?
GERRY: His idea, not ours, but once he gets an idea in his head heâs a little hard to discourage. Weâll go if you two get to a point when youâd rather talk things through yourselves.
TED: The Committeeâs unanimously of the opinion that they donât want to lose you, Laurie. Youâre one of the best coaches weâve ever had and youâve given the Club great service.
GERRY: Weâd find it very hard to replace you, Laurie.
There is another pause.
TED: The Clubâs going through a slump but nobody blames you.
LAURIE: I should bloody well hope not.
TED: (exploding) Holy Jesus, Laurie. Thereâs no need to be totally self righteous. When a football club performs as badly as ours has over the last five weeks, most coaches would be honest enough not to try and absolve themselves of all the blame. It really makes me wonder whether thereâs any point to this exercise when I come to you in a spirit of conciliation and you jump down my throat at the first opportunity. I was hurt by what you said about me in the press, deeply hurt. It took all my self control to be pleasant to you when you walked in that door.
GERRY: I think I should tell you that the Committee took a pretty dim view of your press statements, Laurie. If you had any grievances you should have come to us.
LAURIE: The press asked me if it was true I was handing in my resignation, so I said yes, and they asked me why, so I told them.
GERRY: How did they know about your resignation before we did?
LAURIE: I donât know.
GERRY: Did you tell the players you were about to resign?
LAURIE: Yes. I felt I owed it to them.
TED: You must have known theyâd take it to the press.
LAURIE: I thought it was a possibility. I didnât ask them to.
GERRY: It puts the Committee in a hell of a position when you criticise the Club President in the press, Laurie.
TED: Whatâs my sin, Laurie? Whatâs my crime? All I could get out of the article was some vague accusation that I was autocratic. What exactly were you trying to say? That I have opinions? All right. Iâm guilty. That on occasions I express them? All right. Guilty aga...