Based on real accounts from people affected by the Port Arthur massacre, Beyond The Neck is a profoundly moving portrait of a community learning to live beyond trauma. Humour flickers through the darkness. Kindness sits beside pain. Creating a space for stillness, breath and hope, and a reminder that healing is a shared act.

A piece of theatre which is closer to a musical quartet than a traditional play, rhythm and timbre play vital roles in this powerful Australian work, almost as important as characterisation and narrative structure. A uniquely intricate and beautiful style of theatre writing, this new Theatre Works production, directed by Suzanne Chaundy, promises to be a highlight on the Melbourne arts calendar this March. Not to be missed.