Backstage
Category: Q&A
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A contemporary classic mystery
Theatre can be a way of time travelling, says director Iain Sinclair, whose approach to new works is to treat them as classics.
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Grace Cummings Q&A
Pretending to be somebody else is both a profession and a hobby for Grace Cummings.
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Ripped from the Headlines
MTC Associate Director Petra Kalive chats to actor Izabella Yena about character relations, upending a common trope, and perspectives in a pre and post #MeToo world.
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Meet Margot Morales Tanjutco
From performer to comedy writer to horror fan, Margot Morales Tanjutco is not mining her own life for inspiration.
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Meet Maurial Spearim
Playwright Maurial Spearim talks about creating work that is both funny and challenging as a response to the current state of the world.
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Meet Grace Feng Fang Juan
Writer, filmmaker and first-time playwright Grace Feng Fang Juan talks about her debut experience writing for the stage, and how her Cybec Electric experience is helping.
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Meet Jamaica Zuanetti
Jamaica Zuanetti talks about how studying acting helped her playwriting, how writing helps her make sense of her place in the world, and why the story of four women in 19th century France is still relevant today.
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Meet Benjamin Nichol
Ahead of Cybec Electric 2021, playwright Benjamin Nichol discusses the value of childhood plagiarism, maintaining an ethical creative practise and not writing as part of his writing process.
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Meet Dylan Van Den Berg
Playwright Dylan Van Den Berg talks about Black Queerness and the colonial gaze, how looking to the past can help us understand what’s happening now, and coming full circle on his theatre journey with MTC.
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A Mystery Musical Show
Director Simon Phillips chats with MTC about live workshopping his brand new musical, which he is co-writing with Carolyn Burns and Tim Finn.
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Louris van de Geer on adapting The Well
Melbourne playwright Louris van de Geer talks about what attracted her to Elizabeth Jolley's novel, the benefits of the NEXT STAGE Writers' program, and the importance of art.
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Diana Nguyen
Already a fan of Alice Pung’s work, Diana Nguyen is thrilled to now have the author’s blessing to adapt her award-winning YA novel Laurinda for the stage.
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Meet Andrea James
Revisit this story about Andrea James, after she was awarded a NEXT STAGE commission for The Black Woman of Gippsland in 2020.
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Welcome Merlynn Tong
Following a successful Cybec Electric reading earlier this year, Merlynn Tong is thrilled to continue developing her play as a NEXT STAGE writer-in-residence.
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Meet Emme Hoy
Joining MTC this year as a NEXT STAGE writer-in-residence, Emme Hoy has been winning accolades and awards for her writing since high school. As a resident, she’s writing a play that’s a reaction to 2020, but maybe not in the way you’d expect...