Roland Henning has writer’s block. It’s not that he lacks ideas – he’s just frozen, trapped by every artist’s worst fear: the inability to put pen to paper.
Guided by his therapist, Roland moves between past and present, revisiting key memories from his childhood in the Sutherland Shire and confronting the experiences that brought him to this juncture. Funny, fiercely articulate, and disarmingly honest, Toy Symphony captures the frustrations, absurdities, and quiet triumphs of personal creativity. Shire-born playwright Michael Gow returns to this Helpmann Award-winning work to direct it professionally for the first time, exclusively for Sutherland Pavilion’s 50th Anniversary.