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Active Voice
Just as performers have unique physical requirements to ensure their bodies stay healthy and show-ready, they also need to take extra special care of their voices. To help, MTC has an on-call professional speech pathologist, and her tips can help you too.
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MTC History
John Sumner & Ray Lawler
The story of MTC couldn't be told without the stories of John Hackman Sumner and Raymond Evenor Lawler, the theatre makers whose names now adorn Southbank Theatre's two performance spaces.
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Behind the glittering lights of Opening Night
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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MTC Quiz
Opening Nights
For this week’s MTC Quiz, we revisit the last ten Abercrombie & Kent Opening Nights before lockdown. Do you recognise the cast and creatives in these opening night photos?
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MTC Quiz
Onstage Appearances
For this week’s MTC Quiz, we revisit some of the on-stage appearances of our Backstage Banter panel. Do you remember which shows featured these actors?
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MTC Quiz
Seen at the Sumner
As the home of MTC, Southbank Theatre has hosted twelve seasons of productions to date. Take this week’s MTC Quiz and try naming each of these plays seen on the Sumner stage.
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MTC Quiz
Decades of Shakespeare
Across nearly seven decades, MTC has presented a number of unforgettable plays by the Bard. Take this week's MTC Quiz and try naming each of these Shakespearean productions.
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MTC Quiz
Stage Adaptations
Before they were plays, some stories seen at MTC began their life in another form – maybe a book, film or poem. Take this week's MTC Quiz and try naming each of these stage adaptations.
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MTC Quiz
Australian Plays
Some of our favourite productions have shown us a reflection of ourselves on stage. Take this week's MTC Quiz and try naming each of these Australian plays.
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MTC Quiz
Dinner Parties
Appearances can be deceiving, you may not think the food is real, but these on-stage dinners are good enough to eat! Take this week's MTC Quiz and try naming each show that featured these dinner parties.
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MTC Quiz
The Great Outdoors
Escape to the great outdoors from inside a theatre! Take this week's MTC Quiz and try naming each show that featured these outdoor designs.
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MTC Quiz
Grand Designs
The homes on stage in these MTC productions could be on Grand Designs! Take this week's MTC Quiz and try naming each show that featured these jaw-dropping sets.
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MTC Quiz
Name the directors
Directors are the people who unite the cast and creative team to bring a show to life on stage. Take this week's MTC Quiz and try naming the director of each show.
MTC Recommendations
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MTC Recommendations
MTC Recommendations with Karin Farrell
For our final instalment of MTC Recommendations, Programs Producer Karin Farrell extols the virtues of hygge, cups of tea and the little things that make life worthwhile, in or out of lockdown.
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MTC Recommendations
MTC Recommendations with Carmen Lai
We’re sharing a few more recommendations from MTC team members. This week, Casting Administrator Carmen Lai dishes out a smorgasbord of things she has devoured lately.
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MTC Recommendations
MTC Recommendations with Kathleen Higgs
During the shutdown, we’re sharing recommendations from MTC team members. This week, our Executive Director and Co/CEO’s Executive Administrator can see the light at the end of the lockdown tunnel and shares her plans for a post-COVID world.
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MTC Recommendations
MTC Recommendations with Stephen Moore
During the COVID-19 shutdown, we’re sharing recommendations from team members at MTC. This week, our Associate Producer/Senior Company Manager offers some tips for armchair travel, while dreaming about future actual travel.
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MTC Recommendations
MTC Recommendations with Jenni Medway
During the COVID-19 shutdown, we’re sharing recommendations from team members at MTC. This week, Literary Associate Jenni Medway tells us how to use our time ‘unwisely’ — with naps, online games and escapist films — in the pursuit of switching off.
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MTC Recommendations
MTC Recommendations with Leah Milburn-Clark
During the COVID-19 shutdown we’re sharing recommendations from MTC team members. Here, Company Manager Leah Milburn-Clark offers a list of things that bring her comfort during every work-from-home, FaceTime-the-family, stay-inside-and-don’t-go-out week.
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MTC Recommendations
MTC Recommendations with Janine Snape
During the COVID-19 shutdown, we’re sharing recommendations from team members at MTC. This week, Casting Director Janine Snape shares her tips for better Zoom auditions, as well as what’s in her viewing and reading pile (aside from plenty of play scripts)
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MTC Recommendations
MTC Recommendations with Petra Kalive
During the COVID-19 shutdown, we’re sharing recommendations from team members at MTC. This week, Associate Director Petra Kalive tells us what she’s watching, making and reading while juggling working from home with parenting.
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MTC Recommendations
MTC Recommendations with Sarah Goodes
Each week during the COVID-19 shutdown we’re sharing recommendations from an MTC team member. This week, Associate Artistic Director Sarah Goodes tells us about the books and plays she's reading, and the literary salon she started with actor Diana Glenn.
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MTC Recommendations
MTC Recommendations with Dr Chris Mead
Each week during lockdown we’ll share a range of recommendations from a team member at MTC. This week, we asked Literary Director Chris Mead about spending his days getting lost in words, music and puzzles.
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Ask MTC
Ask MTC your question and a team member will answer one in each week's MTC NOW.
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Feature
Active Voice
Just as performers have unique physical requirements to ensure their bodies stay healthy and show-ready, they also need to take extra special care of their voices. To help, MTC has an on-call professional speech pathologist, and her tips can help you too.
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MTC Quiz
Opening Nights
For this week’s MTC Quiz, we revisit the last ten Abercrombie & Kent Opening Nights before lockdown. Do you recognise the cast and creatives in these opening night photos?
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Behind the glittering lights of Opening Night
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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Performance Athletes
Performers, like athletes, have unique physical health requirements to ensure they stay at the top of their game – even the costumes they wear can have physical consequences! That’s where expert physiotherapists come in.
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Backstage Banter
Backstage Banter
Join actors Fiona Choi, Nadine Garner, Louise Siversen, Michael Wahr and Izabella Yena as they discuss their career highlights, memorable auditions and theatrical superstitions.
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MTC Quiz
Onstage Appearances
For this week’s MTC Quiz, we revisit some of the on-stage appearances of our Backstage Banter panel. Do you remember which shows featured these actors?
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MTC Recommendations
MTC Recommendations with Karin Farrell
For our final instalment of MTC Recommendations, Programs Producer Karin Farrell extols the virtues of hygge, cups of tea and the little things that make life worthwhile, in or out of lockdown.
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MTC Quiz
Seen at the Sumner
As the home of MTC, Southbank Theatre has hosted twelve seasons of productions to date. Take this week’s MTC Quiz and try naming each of these plays seen on the Sumner stage.
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MTC NOW
Southbank Theatre Virtual Tour
Explore backstage at Southbank Theatre in this virtual tour and discover how magic is created on stage in an MTC production.