
It's a simple story, a modern fable with a satisfying sense of inevitability about it. The plot, then, is not really the thing: this is a play about how the situation is handled by each of the characters.


With sweeping gestures, gleeful flourishing and the occasional exuberant leap, conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini led the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra through an exquisite evening of Musical Fireworks.

Arj Barker’s Let Me Do The Talking certainly gives value for money, with plenty of tear-wiping laughs sure to please his long-time fans.


David Harrower’s Blackbird is a script intended to be inflammatory, confusing, filled with heightened and varying emotions on behalf of the characters and audience members.