Louis Nowra is the author of a number of plays such as Capricornia, Cosi, The Temple Radiance, Page 8, The Woman with Dog Eyes, The Marvellous Boy and The Emperor of Sydney. Nowra has won many awards including the 1992 NSW Premier's Literary Prize for his play Cosi. He was winner of the Victoria Premier's Prize 1994 for The Temple, and of the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal.
Toby Schmitz, stars as the Prince of Denmark in his Queensland main stage debut, leading a top-shelf ensemble cast that includes Cocoloco's Trevor Stuart and Matilda Award winners Helen Howard and Eugene Gilfedder.