Great dramatic texts brought to life by some of your favourite stage actors. It's theatre for your ears.
Welcome to MTC Audio Lab, a new series of audio dramas produced by Melbourne Theatre Company.
While we're offstage, we begin this new initiative by experimenting with non-fiction texts and poetry in Great Australian Speeches, recreating chilling ghost stories in a dramatic reading of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, and will be exploring audio plays when we can return to the studio.
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that MTC Audio Lab articles and recordings contains names, imagery and words of deceased persons.
The Turn of the Screw
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The Turn of the Screw: Part One
MTC Associate Artistic Director Sarah Goodes directs a dramatic reading of Henry James’s classic gothic thriller, The Turn of the Screw.
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A whisper in your ear…
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.
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American Gothic: From James to Jackson
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.
Great Australian Speeches
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Introduction with Petra Kalive
We kick off our new series of audio dramas, MTC Audio Lab, with Great Australian Speeches.
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Banjo Paterson's The Man From Snowy River
Mark Coles Smith recites Australian poet Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River.
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Dame Dorothy Tangney's Maiden Speech
Izabella Yena reads the 1943 Maiden Speech of Dorothy Tangney, the first woman to be elected to the Australian Senate.
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Ellen van Neerven’s poems
Leonie Whyman reads Ellen van Neerven’s poems 'Politicians Having Long Showers on Stolen Land', 'White Excellence' and 'All That is Loved'.
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Dame Enid Lyons's Maiden Speech
Marg Downey records Dame Enid Lyons's Maiden Speech as the Member for Darwin on 29 September 1943.
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Faith Bandler’s Faith, Hope & Reconciliation
Leonie Whyman recreates Australian civil rights activist Faith Bandler's speech from the Talkin’ up Reconciliation Convention in 1999.
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Jack Patten's Day of Mourning protest opening address
Mark Coles Smith reads Jack Patten’s opening address from the 1938 Day of Mourning protest.
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John Curtin's Japan Enters the Second World War
Greg Stone recreates the 1941 broadcast in which Australia's 14th Prime Minister John Curtin announces that Australia is now at war with Japan.
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Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue’s opening of the National Congress of Australia’s First People
Shareena Clanton reads Dr Lowitja O'Donoghue's speech which opened the National Congress of Australia’s First People on 8 June 2011.
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Miles Franklin's Henry Lawson Tribute
Izabella Yena recreates Australian author Miles Franklin's homage to fellow writer Henry Lawson.
