Songs from the Book of Life

Songs From The Book of Life, is a work of musical theatre written by Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier and is based around Deborah’s memoir Book of Life, to be published by Allen & Unwin this October. This shimmering piece of autobiography is told in eight scenes, around eight songs with Conway and Zygier exploring the nature of performing, a musical life, the notions of what people know and don’t know, about a career lived over four decades in public eye. 

Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier play themselves (mostly) as they go back through their own story of youth, rebellion, falling in love, aging, money and music; the dirty details of one of the most powerful and iconic women who changed the face of the Australian music industry. Songs From the Book of Life is a bold tour-de-force told with unflinching honesty, humour, revelation, and a reflexive desire to let it all hang out. Directed by Michael Kantor, set design, Chloe Greaves, video design, Nick Roux and choreography Stephanie Lake.