Focused on the Cooma district, the production’s music, text, set, video and lighting design create the inter-connecting elements of an essentially simple story.

The context is reinforced by a constant stage picture that is striking and works as an installation in itself. This visual and sound pastiche supports the gliding, seemingly floating, figures of ghosts; the band, Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen, disassembles and re-assembles like fractured memories of dances and social engagements of a previous era. The melodrama brings the art into our bedrooms and our dreams; making history a more personal memory.

At times there was a strained tension between the story of a relationship and the defining backdrop of dreams. Meshing of different performance styles needed refinement either in text development or in delivery. It worked best when the stylistic elements were in harmony; losing power when in parallel. While the songs were well placed within the surreal world of dreams, the dialogue was at times in a void within the production.

Certainly, this is an exciting theatrical development in a presentational style that will resonate well with audiences; particularly from within this region.