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Backstage

Category: Q&A

Q&A

Oz Malik on playing Haseeb

Actor Oz Malik discusses his character, Haseeb, in I Wanna Be Yours by Zia Ahmed.
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Eleanor Barkla on playing Ella

Actor Eleanor Barkla discusses her character, Ella, in I Wanna Be Yours by Zia Ahmed.
Education

Designing I Wanna Be Yours

Set & Costume Designer Kat Chan condenses and abstracts London in her designs for I Wanna Be Yours.
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Directing I Wanna Be Yours

Melbourne Theatre Company Resident Director Tasnim Hossain discusses her approach to directing I Wanna Be Yours by Zia Ahmed.
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Directing Bernhardt/Hamlet

Director Anne-Louise Sarks discusses her approach to bringing Bernhardt/Hamlet to life onstage.
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Magic box of light

Meet Sunday’s Set Designer Anna Cordingley as she reveals how modernity, abstraction, memory, truth, art and love combine to create a magic box of light.
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Detail & accuracy, fantasy & reality

Discover how costume designer Harriet Oxley uses colour and texture to design Sunday's fantastical realist costumes.
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Roger that

Actor Lincoln Elliott plays multiple characters in Sunshine Super Girl, including one very special person in Evonne Goolagong Cawley’s life – her husband Roger. He shares his take on the role and how this story hits really close to home – quite literally.
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Dream debut

You wouldn’t know it, but Jax Compton had never acted before joining the Sunshine Super Girl team. An experienced dancer, she shares why she made the leap into acting to be part of this landmark Australian work.
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Ace moves

Performer and Movement Director Katina Olsen talks to us about acting and choreographing for Sunshine Super Girl and why dance and movement allow Evonne Goolagong Cawley’s story to be in a way few other mediums could.
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Evolving as Evonne

Actor Ella Ferris is the legendary Evonne Goolagong Cawley in Sunshine Super Girl. She talks to us about the joy, challenge and privilege of bringing to life one of her childhood idols and how her character is continually evolving.
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Kate Champion and Nikki Shiels in conversation

Director Kate Champion and actor Nikki Shiels discuss what drew them to Girls & Boys and why its subject matter is incredibly relevant for our stages.
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Yes we Yan

Making his Melbourne Theatre Company debut as Yan in Cyrano, actor and comedian Claude Jabbour is excited by the warmth, joy and fun of this world premiere show.
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Meet Your Chorus: Holly Austin

Holly Austin is an actor, a musician, a playwright, a trained clown and improviser, and chorus member number 3 in Cyrano. Her character’s bravery changes the course of the play.
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Meet Your Chorus: Milo Hartill

Milo Hartill is excited to be taking on the role of chorus member 1 in Cyrano, and trying to passively and directly influence the play’s narrative to go in a less tragic way.

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