
The conversation starts coyly almost casually. Sharman and Malkovich sit and mirror each other in black leather chairs. Nearly mumbling into their hands as they both prop up their chins.


The sublime in Birbiglia comes from his ordinariness – his normalness, and for this normal person to encounter and handle the pain of everyday injustices, disappointments, embarrassments.

As the opening work of the MTC’s 2011 season, Don Parties On is a safe choice. Like most of Williamson’s plays, it appeals to middle-class Australians, apparently showing them extreme versions of themselves, or more conveniently, people they know.


