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Playwright, journalist and rapper Chenturan Aran has written a scorching and razor-sharp new comedy exploring race, love, forgiveness and how we bear witness to other people’s stories.
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Roshelle Fong finds inspiration from all sorts of places, from mundane domestic interactions to bizarre news headlines. She tells us where the spark came from for her new play, set in the not-too-distant future, and featuring a robotic dog.
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Writer and performer Kristen Smyth talks about creating work that questions everything – from notions of truth and traditional social foundations to accepted wisdom – and why the bath is the perfect place to write.
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Sydney-based performer Emily Havea has tallied an impressive list of credits to her name – including being Australia’s first female person of colour to play Curly McClain in Oklahoma! She talks to us about her career to date and her MTC debut in Fun Home.
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Production Manager Michele Preshaw and Scenic Art Supervisor Shane Dunn reflect on the process of bringing Shakespeare's Forest of Arden to life on the Sumner stage.
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Alison Bechdel talks to Melbourne author Ronnie Scott about the experience of seeing her graphic novel Fun Home adapted into a worldwide smash hit musical.
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Touching the Void is possibly the show where Xanthe Beesley’s role as Movement Director is more important than ever. She talks to us about working with the cast to evoke the physicality of climbing the rugged, icy terrain of the Peruvian Andes on stage.
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Jack Green was an MTC Student Ambassador in 2016. When he debuts in As You Like It, he will be the first MTC Ambassador to take to the mainstage as an actor in one of our shows.
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Following Eurovision, world tours, major musicals, TV shows and an acclaimed fifth studio album, Keir Nuttall and Kate Miller-Heidke return to the world of Shakespeare this year to compose for MTC’s season of Shakespeare’s musical comedy, As You Like It.
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Award-winning British playwright Dennis Kelly may be best known to audiences for his adaptations of Matilda and Pinocchio, but Girls & Boys is a very different kind of family story. He talks to us about fatherhood, relationships and believing women.
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Touching the Void dramatises the true story of climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, and their treacherous descent down a glacial Andean mountain. Ahead of its Australian premiere at MTC, the real Yates spoke to us about the beauty and humour of climbing.
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Director Sarah Giles discusses the maths of humour, the music of The Truth and the greatest lie of all: the theatre.
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Ahead of his debut with MTC, as Jim Fingal in The Lifespan of a Fact, Karl Richmond talks about metajournalism, metaphysics, modern myths and the importance of bridging the generation gap.
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Currently starring as Jon in our digital season of Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, Dan Spielman talks to us about consent, intimacy, accessibility and taking live theatre to the screen.
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Carolyn Burns, Tim Finn and Simon Phillips, the creative team behind the beloved Ladies in Black, have reunited to work on a new musical that is the latest MTC NEXT STAGE commission.