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Category: Feature

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Melbourne Makers: Dann Barber

Costume Designer Dann Barber reveals his inspiration for A Very Jewish Christmas Carol and his process for delving into the world of characters.
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Ready to roll in My Sister Jill

Learn how our talented team prepared an original FX Holden from 1953 for the stage.
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Melbourne Makers: Amy Cater

Amy Cater, one of the first qualified Intimacy Coordinators in Australia, breaks down the role for us while discussing her work on Jacky and Is God Is.
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1950s–70s Australia

Learn more about the key moments and circumstances the characters in My Sister Jill were living through in post-World War II Australia.
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Melbourne Theatre Company timeline

Take a walk down memory lane with our interactive timeline as we look back at key moments in our rich and vibrant history.
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Endless innovation

In a career spanning six decades, Caryl Churchill has completely transformed the art of playwriting – and she continues to reinvent the genre with each new creation.
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Melbourne Makers: Katie Weston

Composer Katie Weston gives us the low-down on writing the music for Bloom and why she connected so strongly to this unique, Australian story.
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Emotion and heart

Learn about the inspiration behind Bloom and the process of creating this heartwarming new Australian musical from co-creator Tom Gleisner.
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God, or what we can remember of her

Multidisciplinary artist Jesse daCosta shares her experience of Is God Is and how it moved, confronted and spoke to her personally.
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Alone in historically white spaces

For writer, actor and artist Effie Nkrumah, Is God Is transforms a historically white space into a catalyst for cleansing and coming together.
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I don't Beckett

You’re not alone in thinking ‘I don’t get it’ when it comes to Beckett. Our five-minute rundown is here to help.
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Celebrating queer Indigenous artistry

Dr Todd Fernando reflects on the themes of queer and Indigenous identities in Declan Furber Gillick's groundbreaking new play Jacky.
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Melbourne Makers: Eugyeene Teh

Eugyeene Teh was captivated by the boundless possibilities of theatre from a young age. Read on to discover how he turned this passion into a career and how he tackled the set and costume design for one of the greatest plays ever written, Happy Days.
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An interrupted being

For author Claire Thomas, Samuel Beckett’s image of a trapped woman in his absurdist masterpiece Happy Days is as potent as ever.
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Trailblazers

Join us and celebrate some of our community of trailblazing women – onstage and off, and from yesterday, now and tomorrow.

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