As a multi-award-winning theatre-maker, Tama Matheson performed and directed shows and operas all over the world :
Covent Garden,
Sydney Opera House,
Royal Albert Hall,
Royal Philharmonic,
King’s Head Theatre,
Queensland Theatre Company,
Naples Philarmonic (Florida)
Opera Holland Park
Graz Opera
“Dazzling! A Five star surprise!"
Gyles Brandreth
“Art at that level is what makes life worthwhile. The rest is just survival.”
Stage Noise
"This is theatre at its most visceral."
Escapada Mag
"A tour de force"
Courier Mail
Listen to the episode of Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth about my play Beethoven - I Shall Hear in Heaven
Tama's Music-Plays
Beethoven: I Shall Hear in Heaven - the extraordinary life of Ludwig Van Beethoven
Tchaïkovsky: Child of Glass - the bittersweet life of Tchaikovsky
Passions: the Life of J.S Bach
Ben - the Life of Benjamin Britten
The Wandering Tower - the life and death of Sergei Prokofiev
The White Mouse - the story of Nancy Wake, the greatest heroine in WWII
Panufnik- His Quest for Peace - the incredible story of one man's resilience in the face of tyranny and war
Don Juan: the Dazzling Irrevence of Lord Byron
When the World was Wide - the parllel lives of Banjo Paterson & Henry Lawson
Mahler's 10th - the creation of Mahler's great unfinished symphony
Christmas Fairy Tales (including The Nutcracker; Hansel & Gretel; The Little Match Girl; The Story of Gabriel Grub)
A Christmas Carol - an adaptation
Peer Gynt - a musical adaptation
A Midsummer Night's Dream - as told by Shakespeare himself
And 6 traditional plays
Boudicca (a verse drama about the greatest English Queen)
The Siege of Malta
Harry le Roy (the strange and brutal afterlife of Henry V)
The Martyrdom of Anne Askew - the Martyrdom of one of the most extraordianry women in Tudor England.
Dick & Vic - the story of the one occasion when Charles Dickens met Queen Victoria, and what on earth took place...
Mike & Leo - the unknown story of the great painting duel between the two greatest artists in history
Tama is a London-based writer, director, and actor, and has worked in TV, Theatre, and Opera all over the globe. He is the author of 13 successful plays, and several play adaptations.
He is also the originator of a brand new genre of theatre, the Music-Play, which fuses drama and music into a fresh theatrical genre. In these Music-Plays, the biography of great historical figures is mixed and mingled with the music of their era to create a heady admixture of music and drama.
Artistic Director of the Brisbane Shakespeare Festival, Tama has worked at places as diverse as Covent Garden, the Sydney Opera House, the Royal Albert Hall, and The King's Head Theatre. His recent production of Beethoven: I Shall Hear in Heaven, was the first play performed at Opera Holland Park, and was performed to rsounding acclaim.
Graduating from Oxford University with a Bachelor of Arts in 2000, Tama made his directing debut in London, with such classic plays as Antigone and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and, after directing a highly-successful production of Amadeus in Australia, began the Brisbane Shakespeare Festival, which is now in its 20th year.
Tama still directs theatre and opera around the world, and recently appeared in Channel 5's Ellis.
His Music-Plays have been nominated for several awards, including a shorlisting for the RPS Storytelling Awards in London.