Melbourne Theatre Company Artistic Director & Co-CEO Anne-Louise Sarks today revealed the Company’s 2024 season.
Season 2024, the second under Sarks’ artistic leadership, features 12 productions that offer brave works and daring performances, reflecting the Company’s vision of presenting stories that inspire conversations about who we are, how far we’ve come and where we’re going.
Melbourne Theatre Company’s Season 2024 builds on the successes of 2023, offering audiences classic dramas, in-demand international plays, new Australian writing and everything in between.
“Audiences across Season 2023 have responded so strongly to our Australian works, from Sunday and Jacky to Bloom and Prima Facie confirming there is no shortage of appetite for a wide range of homegrown stories on our stages.” said Sarks.
“Season 2024 builds on this as we present two Melbourne Theatre Company commissions, four Pulitzer Prize winning plays, three works supported by our NEXT STAGE Writers’ Program that invests in commissioning and developing new Australian plays, four cross-industry collaborations, two new Australian plays, seven works from emerging and established Australian writers, and one game-changing collaboration.”
“We are more committed than ever to providing a platform for the stories that define Australia and presenting works that spark conversation and help people understand the world around them. At a time defined by ‘what to stream next’, Season 2024 is our invitation to experience the magic of live theatre here in Melbourne.”
Season 2024 goes beyond Melbourne Theatre Company’s 12 unmissable productions and enhances and builds on its many programs that nurture the future of Australian theatre: from developing new programs and pathways for emerging artists and creatives, investing in the development of new Australian plays to a major collaboration with the country’s longest established First Peoples theatre company – ILBIJERRI Theatre Company – on a full program of new works (to be announced next year).
“Season 2024 will continue to build and strengthen Melbourne Theatre Company’s position a step ahead of the cultural zeitgeist, and invite audiences in to conversations about the things, big and small, that preoccupy us collectively at this moment,” continued Sarks.
“Like so many in the industry we are a theatre company in recovery. However, there is much to celebrate, including the Company’s 70-year anniversary in 2023 offering a time of reflection on both the extensive efforts and passions of all who’ve helped build the Company, and also our potential over coming years. Season 2024 is an incredibly exciting next step on that journey.”
Published on 13 September 2023
