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The artisans who work behind the scenes on MTC shows may be out of sight but their impressive skills and talent are vital in creating the magic of theatre. Costume maker John Van Gastel gives us a glimpse of what’s involved.
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While COVID has certainly put a spoke in the wheel of 2020, MTC’s NEXT STAGE Writers’ Program has been continuing apace behind the scenes.
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Talking tech thrillers, Zoom theatre and the benefits of working in an office with playwright Kylie Trounson…
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Melbourne Theatre Company is a dog-friendly workplace. Let’s meet the very good four-legged friends of MTC...
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In the midst of the fashion capital of Australia’s mask mandate, MTC’s milliner is making some very stylish statement masks.
MTC NOW
In April 2020, the family of long-time MTC subscribers Arthur & Viola Charlwood donated to the Company their signed first edition copy of Ray Lawler’s Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. Their daughter, Dianne White, shares their story.
MTC Audio Lab
The second series of MTC Audio Lab takes us on an eerie literary journey with a dramatic reading of Henry James’s classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw. Director Sarah Goodes shares her vision for an act of collective imagination.
MTC Audio Lab
On the continuing legacy of Henry James’s gothic thriller The Turn of the Screw, one of contemporary literature’s most enduring and inspiring classics.
MTC Audio Lab
We kick off our new series of audio dramas, MTC Audio Lab, with Great Australian Speeches, curated and directed by MTC Associate Director Petra Kalive. She tells us how she sought to highlight something we’re very much in need of right now: hope.
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As we dream of re-opening the theatre, we take a backstage look at our opening nights through the eyes of actors, creatives and MTC staff.
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Since 2013, MTC’s Women in Theatre Program has provided invaluable mentoring and career development for women in our industry. COVID-19 restrictions have changed some aspects of the program but the 2020 cohort won’t let it stand in their way.
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The green room is a common feature in theatres and show spaces (so much so it’s even lent its name to Melbourne’s Green Room Awards). This room for artists to relax in when not performing dates back centuries. But often they’re not even green…
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Mark Wheeler is Theatre Operations Director at Southbank Theatre. He introduces us to the front-of-house staff you see in the foyer, who keep the theatre running and who make the audience’s visit one to remember.
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In 2019, MTC Education produced a virtual tour of the Company’s Sturt Street HQ building, allowing anyone to remotely visit the spaces where plays are rehearsed, sets are built and costumes and wigs are created. Next up: the Southbank Theatre virtual tour
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Actors can spend a LOT of time at the theatre; so much so it can become like a second home. And with jobs that require them to change clothes, shower and sometimes sleep at work, they need a space in which to do these things. Enter, the dressing rooms…