The programme includes two new premieres and begins with a jazz album launch from Jamie Oehlers and Paul Grabowsky.

Canberra’s leading creative company, The Street Theatre, has revealed an exciting 2016 season filled with music and new drama that begins this weekend. 

The programme launches this coming Sunday with The Burden of Memory, an album launch and concert presented by leading Australian jazz saxophonist Jamie Oehlers in collaboration with inimitable pianist Paul Grabowsky. The two travelled to New York to record the album of original works alongside drummer Eric Harland and bassist Reuben Rogers, and the pieces – each based on the theme of memory – will receive their first live performance on Sunday 6 March. “Memory can hold us back, it can be a weight that cements us to a place in time, not allowing the presence needed to progress,” said Oehlers of the title track. “At times it seems we just need to press the reset button and start anew.”

The Street Theatre will also present four full theatrical works this year, including two brand new premieres. The Faithful...