Brilliant Lies: Comparison between Film and Playwright

David Williamson wrote the serious comedy, Brilliant Lies in 1993. Three years later the play was adapted into a film. The play was about how a young sexy party girl, Susy, was sexually harassed by her power-demeaning boss, Gary. Throughout the story we are kept in the dark about what the truth really is concerning the account in the office when both parties worked late alone. The film introduces changes to both enhance and develop the play’s main ideas and themes.
When plays are made into film, or film into plays improvement s are made. Scenes are taken out, added and changed.
The film of Brilliant Lies has significant improvements; a scene is added, some are deleted and overall the setting are far more exotic.
Overall the film improves on the ideas explored in the play.


Many changes are displayed in the film adapted from the playwright. One of these main changes would be the ending of the story.
The adapted film ending shapes our ideas of Gary and his wife, Stephanie....