Miss Docker is one of Nobel Laureate Patrick’s White’s most memorable creations. She and her neighbours are as hilarious and peculiar as they are uncannily familiar. Together, this pioneering text and marvellous characters take us on a dizzying ride through suburban Australia, exploring the meaning of morality, mortality and the need for belonging in A Cheery Soul.

Gaz Simpson and Diana Simmonds invited actor Jay James-Moody into Arts Tuesday in order to learn what makes this current production by Sydney Theatre Company so enjoyable.