Beyond the Neck

About

A mother. A teenager. A tour guide. A man who can’t outrun the past. Their lives don’t intersect—until they do, in the aftershock of one day Australia won’t forget.

Tom Holloway’s Beyond the Neck is a profoundly compassionate portrait of a community living with loss. Four individual stories braid together alongside a chorus that holds the space—observing, echoing and gently urging the characters forward. Humour and care thread through the piece, allowing light to enter even as it looks unflinchingly at trauma.

Directed by Suzanne Chaundy, this new Theatre Works production honours the delicacy and daring of Holloway’s writing—clear, unsentimental and luminously humane. Frances Greenslade, Emmaline Carroll Southwell, Cassidy Dunn and Freddy Collyer lead a nimble ensemble that balances tenderness, wit and truth.

Beyond the Neck invites audiences to sit together, listen closely and leave changed—if only by an inch.

“Audiences will be deeply moved by this fine production”. — Beat Magazine

A Theatre Works Production

Director: Suzanne Chaundy

Cast: Frances Greenslade, Emmaline Carroll Southwell, Cassidy Dunn, Freddy Collyer

Creatives: Lighting Jason Bovaird, Sound Composition Phil McCleod, Sound Designer Jack Burmeister, Set & Costume Emma Ashton

Subscribe now. Single tickets on sale Tues 13 January 2026 at 10am

Booking Information

Concessions

Concession: Senior Card, Government Concession Card, full-time student 16+ with valid ID.
30 & under: 30 years and under with photo ID.
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Under 24 months: Free when held by a carer and not occupying a seat.
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Nunawading

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Seating

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