Geoffrey Robertson Coming to QPAC

QPAC is offering audiences a remarkable opportunity to see one of the globe's leading legal minds and thinkers of our time on stage, as he has never been seen before.

Geoffrey Robertson's first one-man show Dreaming Too Loud will be an entertaining and beguiling mix of gravitas and intellectual larrikinism as Robertson brings the passion and charisma he is famous for, from the television series Hypotheticals, to the Concert Hall stage for one night only (Tuesday 12 May).

Recognised as one of the world's leading human rights lawyers and an intellectual Robertson will offer Australian audiences insights into the public and private events that have marked his life's extraordinary trajectory.

Through archival footage, personal stories and revelations, the man Christopher Hitchens described as 'the greatest living Australian' looks back on a career of illustrious and infamous cases involving Julian Assange, the Sex Pistols, Princess Diana, Salman Rushdie and the Gaddafi family to name a few. inspiration for the global justice movement, Robertson will illuminate some of the pioneering achievements that have marked his career, including tenacious - and successful - campaigns to end prolonged stays on death row and the goal to stop expelled political tyrants from attaining luxurious retirement havens.

Closer to home, Robertson famously represented Tasmanian Aborigines to stop the Natural History Museum from experimenting on the remains of their ancestors and defended Oz Magazine, whose obscene parody of Rupert Bear led to an allegation of corrupting public morals.

Founder and joint head of Doughty Street Chambers, the UK's leading human rights practice, Robertson has served as a UN appeal judge at the war crimes court in Sierra Leone and exposed the UK Government's secret involvement in pushing the sale of armaments to Iraq.

From his 25 year marriage to author Kathy Lette, to his books, speeches and reflections, Geoffrey Robertson provokes, disturbs and above

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