Turn A Blind Eye
Following Tony Doyle’s sold-out, award-winning 2025 Fringe show, this brand-new work invites you into a friendly, relaxed setting where original live music and Tony Doyle's poetry, commentary and trademark wit intertwine — swinging you between the personal, the environmental and the cosmic. You won’t know whether to laugh or cry… so expect to do both.
Totally blind, Tony Doyle brings his poetry to life through an AI-synthesized version of his own voice, adding an intimate and innovative dimension to the performance.
Live music comes from Orchid — a six-piece ensemble blending folk, classical and world influences into a sound entirely their own. Original compositions are written and performed by Tony Doyle and fellow band members.
This is a show you can't afford to miss.
Doors & Bar open @ 5.30pm. Pre-lude: Harp Solo (as you are seated).
Presented by: Tony Doyle
Throughout his career in the arts, Tony Doyle has been recognised with Churchill and Australia Council Fellowships, a Centenary Medal, and the prestigious Ros Bower Award for lifelong achievement. During the Covid lockdown, he turned to poetry — a passion that led him to win the 2025 Mary Walker Fringe Award for Poetry. A versatile musician, Tony has played in numerous bands across a range of genres and now writes and performs with Orchid, a six-piece ensemble blending folk, classical, and world influences. In 2005, he debuted an original one-man music and theatre performance in Adelaide and later in Washington, DC.Suitability & warnings
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Complex themes
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Presenter
Presented by: Tony Doyle
Throughout his career in the arts, Tony Doyle has been recognised with Churchill and Australia Council Fellowships, a Centenary Medal, and the prestigious Ros Bower Award for lifelong achievement. During the Covid lockdown, he turned to poetry — a passion that led him to win the 2025 Mary Walker Fringe Award for Poetry. A versatile musician, Tony has played in numerous bands across a range of genres and now writes and performs with Orchid, a six-piece ensemble blending folk, classical, and world influences. In 2005, he debuted an original one-man music and theatre performance in Adelaide and later in Washington, DC.
