
Being novel, new music sounds fresh to the bored classical music connoisseur and attracts new audiences. It can be intellectual, emotional, beautiful, mesmerising, ugly, comic, and, most of all, FUN!

The American Dream and its ramifications have provided generations of fine US playwrights with fodder. Blue Surge is another take on individuals pursuing happiness and prosperity, despite their backgrounds.

To be able to just sit and be carried away by a seemingly effortless and poignant rendition of some of world’s most beautiful songs … there is nothing more to ask of a night’s entertainment.

While the humour and wit were portrayed very well, the tragedy, violence and romance were a little harder to distinguish.

There’s something about the family dinner table that brings out your rawest and deepest emotions.


Attempting to rationalise the play in any literal sense is futile since it is the ambiguous, meandering nature of the 4 voices that allows it to become such a powerful work.