Presented by State Theatre Company of SA

By Anna Goldsworthy and Peter Goldsworthy.

Play Partner: The Advertiser
Supported by: Doctors in Theatre

EACH OF US HAS A NOTE TO PLAY IN LIFE'S GREAT SYMPHONY.

WORLD PREMIERE
A new South Australian play commissioned by State Theatre Company of South Australia, based on the novel by Peter Goldsworthy, widely regarded as a modern Australian classic.

"If you want people to believe your lies, set them to music..."

Against the backdrop of Darwin - that small tropical hothouse lying at the tip of Northern Australia - Paul Crabbe, the son of music-loving parents, is sent to receive piano lessons from the 'maestro' Eduard Keller, a Viennese refugee with a shadowed past. The relationship between teacher and student is not an easy one. The mysterious Keller reveals little about himself to his pupil, which only fuels Paul's curiosity...

Almost 20 years after its first publication, Maestro continues to gather momentum, published to stunning acclaim in Germany and Austria last year, selling its 200,000th copy in Australia this year, and recently being voted among the Top 40 Australian books of all time.

The novel has been adapted for the stage jointly by the novelist and his daughter, Anna, a writer and prize-winning pianist. A profound exploration of European exile and Australian adolescence, Maestro is also a wise and funny play about love and betrayal, about forgetting and remembering and about the seductions and mystifications of art.

"An effervescent, compassionate wit. He can't help being funny, but he's wise too."Gerard Windsor, Australian Book Review

"This novel is a rare jewel, one can only kneel before its beauty."Austria, Book Week

Starring	Michaela Cantwell, Dennis Olsen
Director	Martin Laud Gray
Designer	Mary Moore