Its world premiere was at the Queensland Theatre Company directed by artistic director Aubrey Mellor.
His neighbour Margaret decides to seek help from his wealthy friends but they are reluctant to lend him money.
I observed myself getting very affectionate to people and very attached to people that I normally wouldn't meet in the city... We were sitting on our deck one day", he continued, "and the talk was all of disaster, of friends, because this recession in Australia for the first time has hit the middle class, as well as the working class.
And I thought, 'What would happen to this little tribe if its most loved member suddenly had a personal financial disaster?
[5] Fellow Australian playwright Louis Nowra said he never understood Williamson's popularity with audiences until he saw a production of Money and Friends.