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Tag: NEXT STAGE

Ask MTC

How do you write a play?

Benjamin Law answers a collection of audience questions about how to write a play – including the mechanics of writing character and dialogue, finding inspiration, and the challenges of writing for the stage versus writing for the screen or the page.
Q&A

Meet Andrea James

It’s been an especially dramatic year for Andrea James, with the COVID-dictated cancellation of her MTC mainstage debut, and the awarding of a NEXT STAGE commission for her new play inspired by one of colonial Australia's first urban myths.
Phillip Kavanagh & Elise Esther Hearst

Phillip Kavanagh and Elise Esther Hearst joined MTC last year as writers-in-residence. They quickly became firm friends, and as they worked together, shared ideas and made each other laugh, an idea for a new play formed almost by accident...
Q&A

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.
Q&A

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...
Feature

Letting go

Benjamin Law’s debut stage work looks beneath the layers of collected memory to discover the cause of one mother’s affliction.
Interview

Career encore

Diana Lin returns in dramatic style after a 20-year hiatus from stage and screen.
Q&A

A Law Unto Himself

Benjamin Law shares his fears and excitements about joining the fold of a theatre company he has long admired.
Feature

Sister Act

Costume and set designers Esther Marie and Rebecca Hayes have conceptualised an imposing, yet intimate physical space for Golden Shield.
Galleries

Golden Shield in rehearsal

Across a five-week rehearsal period at MTC HQ, the Golden Shield team prepared to bring this world premiere to the stage.
Feature

Writing hope

Dan Giovannoni isn’t interested in painting a bleak picture of the world.
Feature

Meet Anchuli Felicia King

We speak to Anchuli Felicia King, the playwright behind Golden Shield.
Feature | NEXT STAGE update
Video | Meet Kylie Trounson

Playwright Kylie tells us about her new work Happy Ending and what she remembers about her first experience as a Cybec Electric playwright four years ago.

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