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Melbourne Makers: Xani Kolac

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.

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Choral stories

Cyrano’s chorus is a key part of the play’s interrogation of old storytelling tropes. The three chorus members help analyse why we continue to tell old stories, and how we can tell new stories; stories for everybody.

Q&A

Meet your Chorus: Robin Goldsworthy

Playing chorus member number 2, a character who is ‘insufferably intense about theatre’, professional pretender Robin Goldsworthy says he’s basically playing himself as he was at age 22.

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Meet Your Chorus: Holly Austin

Holly Austin is an actor, a musician, a playwright, a trained clown and improviser, and chorus member number 3 in Cyrano. Her character’s bravery changes the course of the play.

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Meet Your Chorus: Milo Hartill

A self-identified ‘silly bean’, Milo Hartill is excited to be taking on the role of chorus member 1 in Cyrano, and trying to passively and directly influence the play’s narrative to go in a less tragic way.

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From Evonne to Roxanne

Tuuli Narkle discusses Finnish reindeer herders, the importance of representation to a queer, mixed race teen, and her whirlwind lesson on an Australian icon.

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Yes We Yan

Making his debut with MTC as Yan in Cyrano, actor and comedian Claude Jabbour is excited by the warmth, joy and fun of this world premiere show.

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A Nose by Any Other Name

Actor and playwright Virginia Gay discusses writing a Cyrano not just for the 21st century but for Melbourne in the aftermath of 2020.

Interviews

Interrogating reality through comedy

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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The Truth About ... Stephen Curry

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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Found in Translation

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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The Truth About ... Katrina Milosevic

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.