Toy Symphony

Editorial

When: 9 Nov-12 Dec09
Where: Cremorne Theatre, QPAC
Bookings: qtix

Playwright Roland Henning is attending therapy sessions and trying to convince his therapist Nina that he's not suffering from writer's block - he just can't write any more. But as Nina digs deeper, she uncovers his primary school experiences that changed his life, and personal tragedy looming large over Roland's future, a chance discovery may be Roland's only lifeline… if he chooses to take it.

"I can't think of a better way to return to Brisbane than directing Michael's beautiful play," says the play's director Geordie Brookman. "Toy Symphony taps into one of the great, but not irreversible tragedies of life, the moment we lose our inner child. I was drawn to the piece initially because of its investigation of the creative act but it has stayed in my head and heart since because of the joy and rebirth it finds in some of life's most painful moments."

"Toy Symphony is as much a fantasia as it is an elegy; an often childlike, disturbing and dazzling one at that." Bryce Hallett, The Sydney Morning Herald.

Tim Hunter, Citysearch