Experience the mind of an artist from the inside out.

What drives an artist to create? What forces come into play to propel their artistic and personal journeys?

With Toy Symphony, the highly regarded playwright and Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre Company, Michael Gow, presents a rare insight into the heart and mind of the artist and the incapable power of memory.

Gifted playwright Roland Henning is trying to convince his sceptical therapist Nina that he doesn't have writers 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 which shattered his boyhood and plunged him headlong into dizzy circus of art and life.

But as Roland remains adamant that he is beyond help and will never write again, personal tradgedy 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 play - and the toast Sydney's theatre scene in 2007 (2008 Helpmann Awards Best New Australian Work and 2007 Sydney Theatre Awards Best New Work) - is a compelling journey of personal self-discovery and regeneration.

"Triumphantly successful" The Australian
"Rich and exhilarating" The Sydney Morning Herald

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