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Online Subscription Bookings

Welcome to the 2010 online subscription booking process. Subscribe today and enjoy great nights in the theatre, some of the best seats in the house and great savings for your wallet – choose 11 plays and save more than 35% on single ticket prices. Buy a 3 play package and you get the third play for less than $30*.

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* Based on Saturday evening performances.

2010 Season at a Glance

Take the ride with MTC in Season 2010 - it will be an adrenaline rush to remember.

  • The Swimming Club

    The Swimming Club

    Opens Saturday 30 January Closes Thursday 18 March

    In 1983, when they were footloose and fancy free, they spent one glorious summer together working and loving on a Greek island. Now that they are middle-class, middle-aged, mid-career and mortgaged to the hilt, do they really want to carry all their burdens halfway round the world for a reunion?

  • Madagascar

    Madagascar

    Opens Friday 12 February Closes Saturday 3 April

    In a hotel room overlooking the Spanish Steps in Rome, three versions of a story are told at three different times: by an older woman Lilian, by a young woman June, and by an older man Nathan. As each reveals how they came to be in that room, the audience pieces together the story of a young man’s mysterious disappearance and its shattering implications.

  • The Grenade

    The Grenade

    Opens Saturday 10 April Closes Saturday 15 May

    When you are a major advisor and lobbyist like Busby McTavish of course you step on a few toes. Even so, whose toe would be so sore as to provoke them to place a live grenade in the middle of his living room? Is it a warning? Or someone’s stupid idea of a practical joke? Or maybe the threat comes from within, from among his troubled family. Sounds paranoid? Sure – but even paranoids have enemies.

  • Richard III

    Richard III

    Opens Saturday 24 April Closes Saturday 12 June

    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.

  • The Ugly One

    The Ugly One

    Opens Wednesday 12 May Closes Saturday 12 June

    Lette was thwacked by the ugly stick and no one had the heart to tell him. When his boss passes him over for a job and his wife finally gives it to him straight, he books an appointment with a plastic surgeon. After a nip here and a tuck there, he suddenly looks a million dollars. But a million dollars can look pretty cheap if everyone in town starts looking the same.

  • Boston Marriage

    Boston Marriage

    Opens Friday 4 June Closes Saturday 24 July

    In the drawing room of a fashionable Boston townhouse, Claire and Anna have struck perturbed waters in their long, intimate relationship. In need of money, Anna is considering a marriage of financial convenience; in need of satisfaction, Claire wants to consummate her crush on a young girl she’s recently met. Both, then, have causes for jealousy and both, regrettably, have tart tongues.

  • Dead Man's Cell Phone

    Dead Man's Cell Phone

    Opens Saturday 26 June Closes Saturday 7 August

    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.

  • Let the Sunshine

    Let the Sunshine

    Opens Wednesday 28 July Closes Saturday 4 September

    Attempting to escape a scandal in Sydney, Toby, a lefty documentary filmmaker, arrives in Noosa with his wife Ros to discover that the quaint fishing village of youthful memory is now filled with the sort of wealthy Sydney-siders he hoped to leave behind. A short acquaintance with the right-wing Ron and Natasha becomes a long-term problem when his slacker son and their striver daughter hit it off.

  • All About My Mother

    All About My Mother

    Opens Saturday 14 August Closes Sunday 26 September

    When her seventeen year-old son dies, Manuela leaves her job and takes to the road to search for her son’s father. In Barcelona, she becomes involved with three women in crisis: a young nun, a famous actress and a drag queen. Yet, will taking care of these women help her overcome her guilt and grief for a lost child?

  • Life Without Me

    Life Without Me

    Opens Saturday 9 October Closes Sunday 21 November

    If you don’t know who you are and you don’t know where you’re headed, you might find yourself spiralling in ever-tightening circles until you come to rest in a nondescript part of town in a crummy two-star hotel, where the service is churlish, the lift doesn’t work, the toast is burnt and the pot plants set off your allergies. But keep your expectations low, really low, and, who knows? – you might be pleasantly surprised by how everything works out.

  • Songs for Nobodies

    Songs for Nobodies

    Opens Friday 5 November Closes Thursday 23 December

    When a great singer lets her voice float out over the anonymous crowd, or form the grooves of thousands of records, or flow through radios into millions of homes across the world, she makes countless unknown connections with people. The singer has her story and the listener hers, and should those stories touch each other, there can be magic.


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