Beethoven - I Shall Hear in Heaven
"The best introduction to Ludwig Van Beethoven that you could possibly wish to see."
London Theatre1
Passions : the Life of J.S. Bach
A riveting dramatization of the life of the greatest of all composers, Passions charts the development of one of the most extraordinary individuals in Western Music. Seated amidst a concert of his own incomparable music, Johann Sebastian is a hilarious, fascinating, and deeply moving ramble through a life full of joy, confusion, tragedy, and triumph, leaving its audiences with a shimmering picture of one of the world’s most indispensable artists.
Tchaïkovsky - Bright Stars Shone for Us (full play)
First performed with the Camarata, Brisbane
This Music-Play presents some of the composer’s best-loved compositions amid a moving dramatisation of his extraordinary life: Bright Stars is a thrilling journey through Tchaikovsky’s musical and emotional world.
"A night of wonderful music and moving storytelling… absolutely stunning… brilliant in every way… what a night, what a concert… reduced me to tears more than once… heart-achingly beautiful…" Audience member
Don Juan - The Brilliant Irreverence of Lord Byron
Australia Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville
The thrilling, irreverent, poignant, and hilarious life of one the greatest personalities of the Romantic era: Lord Byron, as refracted through his hilarious autobiographical poem, Don Juan. Bursting with wit and originality, this play shows Byron at his most abundant: dazzling, passionate, and outrageous.
The drama is accompanied by the pianist Clare Hammond for a captivating duo of music and drama.
Prokofiev - The Wandering Tower
Wimbledon International Music Festival
In this thrilling and deeply moving Music-Play, Sergei Prokofiev's strange, eventful history is told amid a scintillating smorgasbord of his music. In The Wandering Tower we see the story of one of classical music’s greatest storytellers - a man who, having found fame and success in Europe and America, returned to Russia a cultural hero - only to find repression and authoritarianism bearing down on his creativity, and curtailing his genius.
The White Mouse - NancyWake
OSO Art Center
The White Mouse tells the story of one of the greatest heroines of World War II, the unparalleled British-Australian soldier, Nancy Wake.
The inspiration for Sebastian Faulks’s Charlotte Grey, Nancy was the allies’ most decorated service woman in WWII.
Hard-drinking, rough-talking, fearless, gritty, and tough, Nancy became the Gestapo’s no. 1 most wanted spy for the whole duration of the war, with a 5-million-franc bounty on her head.
Able to out-drink the boys, out-swear her comrades, and out-think the enemy, Nancy Wake was a soldier unlike any other.
By turns hilarious, thrilling, and devastating – and told through a dazzling combination of theatre and music The White Mouse will take you on a theatrical journey unlike any other.
