Interview
Diana Lin returns in dramatic style after a 20-year hiatus from stage and screen.
Interview
Kerry Saxby, MTC’s Technical Manager of Lighting and Sound, tells us about the scope and complexity of working backstage at Southbank Theatre.
Interview
John Molloy walked in the MTC door for a job interview in 1974. Forty-six years later, the renowned tailor and costume maker is packing up his needle and thread for good.
Interview
Home, I’m Darling playwright Laura Wade delves back in time to discover some truths about the present.
Coffee in the Lounge
Actors Ainsley Melham and Adam-Jon Fiorentino require an immense amount of trust to play the roles of Molina and Valentin in Kander and Ebb’s darkest musical. It’s a trust that came easily to the former Aladdin colleagues.
Feature
Kiss of the Spider Woman is set in an unnamed South American jail cell, seemingly sometime in the 20th century, but the political and social reality that inspired its setting is stark: Argentina’s Dirty War.
Feature
Through the story of one pioneering woman in science, Photograph 51 tells a story familiar to all women in science.
Coffee in the Lounge
Actors Miranda Tapsell and Tuuli Narkle discuss Aboriginality, representation and sisterly bonds in Black is the New White.
Anna Ziegler discusses her play’s explosion on the West End, and how her admiration for scientist Rosalind Franklin inspired her to tell this largely untold story.
For choreographer Andrew Hallsworth, creating dance and movement sequences is his passion. Collaborating with artists who happen to be great friends is an added bonus.
Feature
Actor Gabrielle Chan’s role in Golden Shield is informed by a wealth of personal experiences; not all of which are easy to relive.
Feature
Costume and set designers Esther Marie and Rebecca Hayes have conceptualised an imposing, yet intimate physical space for Golden Shield.
Coffee in the Lounge
Claire van der Boom and Michael Wahr take on the lead roles of William Shakespeare and Viola De Lesseps in Shakespeare in Love.
Feature
Director Tom Healey discusses the power of transformation, both on and off the stage.
Feature
Director Tom Healey explores how the possibility to transform exists in us all, and looks at how this concept evolves in Heisenberg.