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The Village Square

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Three people are in a small room in front of a brick wall. A middle aged man on the left wearing a bowler hat and a jacket holds a guitar and appears to be drinking from a jug. In the middle is a younger woman in a knitted jacket holding a cello and looking into the distance through a pair of binoculars. On the right is a stern looking older man with grey hair and a beard wearing a waistcoat, scarf and jacket. He is holding a lantern. On the brick wall are various pictures of flowers and birds, and there is also a large wooden rosella.
Agatha Yim
Three people are in a small room in front of a brick wall. A middle aged man on the left wearing a bowler hat and a jacket holds a guitar and appears to be drinking from a jug. In the middle is a younger woman in a knitted jacket holding a cello and looking into the distance through a pair of binoculars. On the right is a stern looking older man with grey hair and a beard wearing a waistcoat, scarf and jacket. He is holding a lantern. On the brick wall are various pictures of flowers and birds, and there is also a large wooden rosella.
Agatha Yim
Three people are in a small room in front of a brick wall. A middle aged man on the left wearing a bowler hat and a jacket holds a guitar and appears to be drinking from a jug. In the middle is a younger woman in a knitted jacket holding a cello and looking into the distance through a pair of binoculars. On the right is a stern looking older man with grey hair and a beard wearing a waistcoat, scarf and jacket. He is holding a lantern. On the brick wall are various pictures of flowers and birds, and there is also a large wooden rosella.
Agatha Yim
Three people are in a small room in front of a brick wall. A middle aged man on the left wearing a bowler hat and a jacket holds a guitar and appears to be drinking from a jug. In the middle is a younger woman in a knitted jacket holding a cello and looking into the distance through a pair of binoculars. On the right is a stern looking older man with grey hair and a beard wearing a waistcoat, scarf and jacket. He is holding a lantern. On the brick wall are various pictures of flowers and birds, and there is also a large wooden rosella.
Agatha Yim
Three people are in a small room in front of a brick wall. A middle aged man on the left wearing a bowler hat and a jacket holds a guitar and appears to be drinking from a jug. In the middle is a younger woman in a knitted jacket holding a cello and looking into the distance through a pair of binoculars. On the right is a stern looking older man with grey hair and a beard wearing a waistcoat, scarf and jacket. He is holding a lantern. On the brick wall are various pictures of flowers and birds, and there is also a large wooden rosella.
Agatha Yim
Three people are in a small room in front of a brick wall. A middle aged man on the left wearing a bowler hat and a jacket holds a guitar and appears to be drinking from a jug. In the middle is a younger woman in a knitted jacket holding a cello and looking into the distance through a pair of binoculars. On the right is a stern looking older man with grey hair and a beard wearing a waistcoat, scarf and jacket. He is holding a lantern. On the brick wall are various pictures of flowers and birds, and there is also a large wooden rosella.
Agatha Yim
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Enter The Village Square. On your left, music and fables. On your right, your own imagination.

The Village Square is a show that combines live music performance and storytelling. Set in an imagined town some years ago (as all good fairy tales are), The Village Square presents stories of love and loss, misfortune and mirth, the graceful and grotesque. 

Featuring renowned cellist Zoe Knighton, guitarist/composer Robbie Melville, and the charismatic and much-loved Richard Piper as The Narrator, the memoirs sparkle with the magic of traditional mythology. 

In “One Way Ticket”, The Stone Mason, deafened by the shock of tragic events in his life, finds peace building a bell tower for The Birds to nest in. In “The Fog”, a thick cloud descends upon The Village, and sends the entire population into a deep sleep until the The Dogs discover a way to rouse them. “Kind And Sorrowful” tells the story of a young man who is saved from drowning by the River Spirit with unforeseen repercussions. 

The fables pack an emotional punch in the most unobtrusive way, and the soundtrack quality of the compositions display Melville’s characteristic sense of warmth, quirkiness and romantic melancholy. Though travelling through environments of contemporary classical, folk and jazz, Knighton and Melville weave the disparate elements into unified world.

Evocative, enchanting and above all, human, The Village Square is a captivating combination of music and spoken word.

“In the hands of Zoe Knighton and Robbie Melville there was no question that we were being treated to a new and charming musical experience” - Joseph Baraké, 3BBR-FM Concert Hall

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“"While subtly evading expectations, Robbie Melville loads his music with a restrained melancholy conveying innocence rather than knowingness, the upshot being an unusual emotional ambiguity blending resignation and contentment" - Sydney Morning Herald (Antelodic, 2021)”

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