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For VCE Theatre Studies students and Teachers

An experienced written exam assessor will lead a pre-show panel discussion comprising available members of the cast and creative team. This forum will focus on the key knowledge of Theatre Studies outcome 3. After the performance, there will be a twenty-minute post-show forum, where students will be given the opportunity to ask questions of the panel All teachers who book a school group for the pre-show talk and forum will receive a free PDF version of the Teacher’s Notes.

Cost (includes a ticket to the performance): Metropolitan school groups $35 per student, Non-metropolitan school groups $33 per student
Accompanying teachers:  no charge

To dowload a 2010 MTC Education Booking form, click here.

RICHARD III (Unit 3 Playlist) - Wednesday 12 May at 10.30am

The civil war is over and everyone can bask in the glorious summer created by the new King – everyone, that is, except Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who is more suited to darkness and chaos. Two elder brothers and two young princes stand between him and the English crown. Yet these barely count as obstacles for one so steeped in cunning.

DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE (Unit 4 Playlist) - Wednesday 28 July at 10.30am

When the man next to her in a café fails to answer his mobile phone, Jean discovers that he is seriously incommunicado. Feeling some responsibility for the stranger and wanting to offer some comfort to the dead man’s family, what can she do but keep answering the phone? But responsibilities taken up lightly can become burdens in time. A surrealist fantasy, Dead Man’s Cell Phone traces one woman’s accidental quest to make a few people feel just a little bit better about themselves.

Scripts for Dead Man's Cell Phone are available at Readings: www.readings.com.au