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Melbourne Makers: John Van Gastel

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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The Modern Bard(s)

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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A Legacy Ten Years in the Making

After 10 programs, Brett Sheehy is hanging up his hat as Artistic Director of MTC. He leaves the Company with a legacy of incredible work and innovative initiatives.

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Back to the Void

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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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.

Interviews

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.