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On Monday 29 November, Donors gathered with the cast and creative team of As You Like It to celebrate our first in-person engagement in almost two years.
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How do you create a mountain without actually building a mountain? Set designer Andrew Bailey tells us how he faced this challenge for Touching the Void – an epic tale of survival, endurance and adventure in the Peruvian Andes.
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Is it this play or that play? That is the question ... Watch the cast of As You Like It dig deep into their knowledge of the Bard to tell us the source of these famous quotes.
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MTC Associate Director Petra Kalive reflects on the past two years, the importance of maintaining hope and the irreplaceable experience of live performance.
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Discover the motivations, philosophies and personalities of the characters that inhabit Shakespeare's topsy-turvy world from the people that know them best – the cast of As You Like It.
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In October 2021, former participants across cohorts of MTC's Women in Theatre program were invited to a digital reunion event made possible by our Women in Theatre Donors.
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The Betty Amsden Youth Scholarship Course proceeded in 2021 with the generous support of the Betty Amsden Foundation.
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After more than two years, Shakespeare’s As You Like It finally takes to the MTC stage. Associate Costume Designer and costume maker John Van Gastel takes us behind the scenes, and seams, of this epic journey.
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Jack Green was an MTC Student Ambassador in 2016. When he debuts in As You Like It, he will be the first MTC Ambassador to take to the mainstage as an actor in one of our shows.
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Following Eurovision, world tours, major musicals, TV shows and an acclaimed fifth studio album, Keir Nuttall and Kate Miller-Heidke return to the world of Shakespeare this year to compose for MTC’s season of Shakespeare’s musical comedy, As You Like It.
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Award-winning British playwright Dennis Kelly may be best known to audiences for his adaptations of Matilda and Pinocchio, but Girls & Boys is a very different kind of family story. He talks to us about fatherhood, relationships and believing women.
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Touching the Void dramatises the true story of climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, and their treacherous descent down a glacial Andean mountain. Ahead of its Australian premiere at MTC, the real Yates spoke to us about the beauty and humour of climbing.
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Outgoing MTC Artistic Director Brett Sheehy offers some insight into the plays of Season 2022 – from personal reactions to programming reflections.
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To celebrate Cyrano, Melbourne Theatre Company partner The Melbourne Gin Company have created Roxanne’s Kiss, a special twist on a classic gin & tonic that you can make at home.
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Learn more about the joyous, big-hearted comedy As You Like It – one of the Bard's most popular and thematically contemporary plays, and the source of many of his most famous lines.
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Cyrano is not a musical but it is a show filled with music. The play’s musical director and composer, Xani Kolac, explains the difference – and tells us why this non-musical is also magical.
Education
A resource pack for teachers and students to learn more about the MTC production of Cyrano by Virginia Gay after Edmond Rostand.
MTC Foundation
Read about MTC's incredible achievements in 2020, made possible by donor support.
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Tuuli Narkle discusses Finnish reindeer herders, the importance of representation to a queer, mixed race teen, and her whirlwind lesson on an Australian icon.
Education
Refresh your memory of Cyrano by Virginia Gay after Edmond Rostand, and prepare for the VCE Theatre Studies examination.
Keep us on stage
Learn more about the skilled professionals, each with a depth of experience, who bring each show to life at MTC.
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Director Sarah Giles discusses the maths of humour, the music of The Truth and the greatest lie of all: the theatre.
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From the celebrated playwright behind The Father comes a devilishly dark comedy that explores the truths that tear us apart and the lies that keep us together. Learn more about this international hit in our show programme.
Keep us on stage
Learn more about how philanthropic support touches our creative community.
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As a Melburnian who admits to not liking coffee, Stephen Curry happily runs the risk of inciting a revolt. But as the brother of a Commonwealth Games gold medallist, he’s not worried.
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Tony- and Oscar-winning playwright and screenwriter Sir Christopher Hampton has provided all of the English-language translations for lauded French playwright Florian Zeller. He spoke with MTC ahead of our season of The Truth.
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Watch Nadine Garner, Steve Mouzakis and Karl Richmond – stars of The Lifespan of Fact – play a game of Fact or Fiction.
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As Alice in Florian Zeller’s hit comedy, Katrina Milosevic is trapped in a lie but wants to come clean. In real life, Milosevic wants to do the same about the little white lies we all tell each other every day.
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Michala Banas spills the beans on how she got her gig on McLeod’s Daughters and why you should always do the things that scare you most.
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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll playwright and former MTC Artistic Director Ray Lawler turned 100 on 23 May 2021. To celebrate, theatre and arts journalist John Bailey reflects on Lawler’s legacy.
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As Paul in Florian Zeller’s hit comedy, Bert LaBonté is possibly playing a little fast and loose with the truth but here he fesses up to the biggest lie he ever told.
Education
A resource pack for teachers and students to learn more about the MTC production of Berlin by Joanna Murray-Smith.
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Ahead of his debut with MTC, as Jim Fingal in The Lifespan of a Fact, Karl Richmond talks about metajournalism, metaphysics, modern myths and the importance of bridging the generation gap.
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The Lifespan of a Fact offers audiences a playful, theatrical debate about the value of verifiable facts vs the power of poetic license. It's an age-old debate ... or is it? The history of fact checking may surprise you.
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The Lifespan of a Fact is a somewhat accurate, sort of fictional, mostly true story about the slippery nature of facts. Learn more about this hit Broadway comedy in our production programme, only available online.
Backstage Banter
Meet the stars of Joanna Murray-Smith's romantic thriller, Berlin.
News
We are thrilled to announce that Anne-Louise Sarks will be MTC’s next Artistic Director, heralding an exciting new era for the Company.
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Carolyn Burns, Tim Finn and Simon Phillips, the creative team behind the beloved Ladies in Black, have reunited to work on a new musical that is the latest MTC NEXT STAGE commission.
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The story of The Lifespan of a Fact began almost 20 years ago. The play is a fictionalised version of non-fiction people and events. The real Jim Fingal spoke with MTC to reflect on the lifespan of The Lifespan of a Fact.
Keep us on stage
Meet MTC Education alumna Brodi Purtill, who is well on her way to becoming a drama teacher.
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For the first time in the Company’s history, select MTC shows will be filmed and made available for a digital season you can enjoy on-demand from the comfort of your own couch.
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After a year offstage, Michael Wahr is thrilled to return to MTC, and to all the joys and challenges of being a working actor.
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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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Joanna Murray-Smith’s newest work is an MTC NEXT STAGE Original that asks difficult but vital questions. Learn more about the inspiration behind Berlin in our production programme, available for free online.
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Pretending to be somebody else is both a profession and a hobby for Grace Cummings.
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A family holiday inspired playwright Joanna Murray-Smith to rediscover her Jewish heritage and write her latest play, Berlin.
Backstage Banter
Get to know the two leads from our production of Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes.
Ask MTC
For this instalment of Ask MTC, Nick asks how the Company manages water onstage. CAD Drafter Jacob Battista answers, with a little help from Health & Safety Coordinator Liz Mundell.
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Movement director and consultant Xanthe Beesley talks to us about the concept of physical dramaturgy, the importance of developing a movement language and how this work can hotwire creativity.
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MTC’s Associate Director reflects on the assumed and invisible lines that are crossed because of privilege, entitlement, celebrity and structural authority, and the subtle and sometimes invisible thresholds of power.
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Learn more about Hannah Moscovitch’s whipsmart #MeToo-era take on the archetypal student–teacher romance in our production programme, available for free online.
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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.
MTC pays tribute to Dr Helen Ferguson, a lifelong advocate of the arts and long-time friend and supporter of the Company.
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From performer to comedy writer to horror fan, Margot Morales Tanjutco is not mining her own life for inspiration.
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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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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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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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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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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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Entering its eighth year, MTC’s Women in Theatre Program is one of the Company's most successful career development initiatives and has supported over 80 female theatre professionals to date.
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Read how MTC Education continued to create meaningful access to theatre for all young people in 2020.
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From her home in Los Angeles, playwright Lally Katz speaks with MTC about travelling – through time and place – via her dreams.
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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.
After four years with MTC, Associate Artistic Director Sarah Goodes is embarking on new theatrical adventures. Take a trip back through the archives of her many fabulous productions with the Company.