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The club
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“The Club” by David Williamson is an exciting and very amusing play that goes behind shadowed doors, beyond the thousands of screaming fans, and exposes the wheeling and dealing that goes on inside the committee room of a club that’s in turmoil. “The Club” is based around the Collingwood Football Club. A club that was once one of the greatest football clubs in the VFL, but is now a club that’s fans have been eagerly waiting for a premiership for 19 years. The play highlights how a club can get so greedy and so caught up in winning a premiership that they would be quite willing to throw history, loyalty and tradition out the window to bring home the flag to their fans. From the very beginning of the play we see that power is a big issue, especially power in numbers. In the first scene on page 10 we read a classic example of this, where Danny(after finding out that Laurie might be getting sacked) says “It means that if that bloody committee of yours gives Laurie the boot tonight then you don’t have a team tomorrow.” Not only does this demonstrate the effectiveness of power in numbers, it also displays that clashes between powers in a large organisations (such as Collingwood Football Club) can result in full blown anarchy.
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