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Mark Wheeler is Theatre Operations Director at Southbank Theatre. He introduces us to the front-of-house staff you see in the foyer, who keep the theatre running and who make the audience’s visit one to remember.
Interview
In 2019, MTC Education produced a virtual tour of the Company’s Sturt Street HQ building, allowing anyone to remotely visit the spaces where plays are rehearsed, sets are built and costumes and wigs are created. Next up: the Southbank Theatre virtual tour
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Actors can spend a LOT of time at the theatre; so much so it can become like a second home. And with jobs that require them to change clothes, shower and sometimes sleep at work, they need a space in which to do these things. Enter, the dressing rooms…
MTC History
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.
Interview
For many people, preparing food is a way to relax, the end result of which – hopefully! – is a delicious and nutritious meal. For stage managers, it’s something else altogether. We take a look behind the MTC pantry door…
Q&A
Susie Youssef and Peter Paltos want Laura Wade to write a Home, I'm Darling sequel, so we can find out what happens to their characters, Fran and Marcus.
Q&A
Toby Truslove talks about the difference between acting on stage and on screen, the joy of playing a man in love, and eating cake eight times a week.
Interview
Best known as Kath Day-Knight from Kath & Kim, Jane Turner returns to the stage, taking on a very different maternal role.
Interview
Actor Izabella Yena’s MTC journey began in high school. This year she makes her MTC mainstage debut in Home, I’m Darling, and she will return to the stage a few months later for Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes.
Interview
We chat with Nadine Garner about Emerald City, making art and her brilliant career.
Interview
You may know actor Michala Banas from her onscreen roles in Upper Middle Bogan or McLeod’s Daughters, but her new role is her most personal yet.
Interview
Caroline O’Connor has played many leading ladies throughout her illustrious career, so the role of Aurora in Kiss of the Spider Woman – the embodiment of a multitude of leading lady archetypes – seems tailor made for her.
Interview
Award-winning set and costume designer Alicia Clements discusses the ‘marathon’ journey of bringing Kiss of the Spider Woman to life through costume.
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Kiss of the Spider Woman has had at least four different lives over its four-decade history. We take a look back at its often groundbreaking journey from page to stage to silver screen and Broadway.