As a founding member of Working Dog Productions, Tom Gleisner has an impressive list of film and television credits to his name. Now he’s written his first musical. With the show about to open at Melbourne Theatre Company, he tells Jo Litson why he was drawn to the genre and how much he’s enjoyed the creative process.
A few years ago, Tom Gleisner read about a scheme in the Netherlands where an aged care home was offering free accommodation to university students in return for some work as carers, and an idea for a stage show began to take shape.
“It just struck me as a lovely way to bring old people...
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