A job that changed me: At the Titanic theatre restaurant we always hit an iceberg, but were often hit by bread rolls too

The top level of a historic Melbourne hotel was transformed into the first-class dining room, with chandeliers and a string trio, and the ground floor was steerage It was 1998, the year after James Cameron’s Titanic had made a splash with cinematic audiences worldwide, and I – an amateur musical theatre performer and creative arts uni student – took an acting job in one of humankind’s most venerated performance venues: the theatre restaurant. If you loved restaurants, theatre and the idea of ...

By Tristan Lutze