It’s difficult to know what director Steven Mitchell Wright was hoping to accomplish with Sons of Sin.

Verdi’s operatic heroines endure much. These singing sirens are murdered, humiliated, abused, fall prey to sexual predators and tend to die in agony from terminal disease.

This old school entertainment is a charmer. And, the extraordinary investment of energy by the cast triggered a standing ovation from a delighted audience.

Seasoned theatre goers and those who love an intellectual delve into what constitutes art or those who have ever wondered what really goes on inside the mind of the ‘tormented’ artist will take a lot away from the multi award winning play.