Queensland Theatre Company

Toy Symphony

By Michael Gow

A co-production with State Theatre Company of South Australia

Toy Symphony (2009)
Chris Pitman as Roland Henning

Overview

Queensland Theatre Company’s very own artistic director and award-winning playwright Michael Gow, gives us a rare insight into the heart and mind of the artist and the inescapable power of memory.

Gifted playwright Roland Henning is trying to convince his sceptical therapist Nina that he doesn’t have writer’s block, it’s just that, well, he can’t write anymore ...

With Nina’s help, Roland reluctantly recalls his primary school days in the outer-Sydney suburb of Como, and the extraordinary day that shattered his boyhood plunging him headlong into the dizzy circus of art and life.

But as Roland remains adamant that he is beyond help and will never write again, personal tragedy threatens to permanently derail him.

A chance discovery offers Roland a chance of salvation, but will he grasp it or slip back into old habits?

Gow’s long-awaited new play – and the toast of Sydney’s theatre scene in 2007 – is a compelling journey of personal self-discovery and regeneration.

Director: Geordie Brookman
Assistant Director: Melanie Wild
Composer/Sound Designer: Brett Collery
Designer: Jonathon Oxlade
Lighting Designer: Nigel Levings
Lighting Design Associate: Ben Hughes
Cast includes: Lizzy Falkland, Barbara Lowing, Daniel Mulvihill, Chris Pitman, Ed Wightman