Toy Symphony

Toy Symphony Toy Symphony

Roland Henning has writer's block. Unlike the creative torment Roland experiences in Michael Gow's earlier play Furious, he is frozen, trapped by an 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.

In a rare playwright-as-auteur moment, Shire-born playwright Michael Gow returns to this Helpmann Award-winning work to direct it professionally for the first time, reclaiming the text in the very suburbs that shaped it, exclusively for Sutherland Pavilion's 50th Anniversary.

Funny, fiercely articulate, and disarmingly honest, Toy Symphony asks us to examine what happens when ideas refuse to take shape? The HSC student struggling for the perfect essay, the corporate worker agonising over the right words in a critical email, the influencer haunted by ideas they can't translate into content.

Full of wit, tenderness, and piercing insight, the play captures the frustrations, absurdities, and quiet triumphs of personal creativity.

Sutherland Pavilion




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❊ When ❊

Date/s: Thursday 18th June 2026  -  Saturday 20th June 2026

Time: 7pm and 11am


❊ Where ❊

 Sutherland Entertainment Centre View Venue
 30 Eton Street Sutherland New South Wales 2232 Map
Sutherland Entertainment Centre
30 Eton StreetSutherlandNew South Wales2232AU
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