MTC NOW

Q&A

Costuming Cyrano

Designer Jo Briscoe discusses how costumes communicate character, and practical considerations in costume design.

Education

Cyrano Education Pack

A resource pack for teachers and students to learn more about the MTC production of Cyrano by Virginia Gay after Edmond Rostand.

Features

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.

Virginia Gay in rehearsal for Cyrano. Photo: Charlie Kinross

Videos

Why be a woman?

Playwright and actor Virginia Gay talks about why the title role of Cyrano is perfect for a woman to play.

Robin Goldsworthy in rehearsal for Cyrano. Phot: Charlie Kinross

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.

Q&A

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.

Q&A

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.

Q&A

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.

Q&A

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.

Education

Cyrano Revision

Refresh your memory of Cyrano by Virginia Gay after Edmond Rostand, and prepare for the VCE Theatre Studies examination.