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Artwork for Rebecca
Artwork for Rebecca
Artwork for Rebecca
Artwork for Rebecca
Artwork for Rebecca
Artwork for Rebecca
Rebecca

30 SEP   —   5 NOV 2025

Southbank Theatre, The Sumner

Step into the haunting world of Daphne du Maurier’s classic 1938 novel, where love and doubt cloak the corridors of Manderley.

Approx. 1 hour and 45 minutes, with no interval

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This is rated 5 out of 5 stars

'A chilling dive into the psychology of comparison.'

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This is rated 4 out of 5 stars

'A triumph of Gothic sensibility.'

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This is rated 4 out of 5 stars

'An intriguing exploration and manifestation of a troubled mind.'

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'A sensation.'

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'A dark, seductive jewel of a production.'

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ABOUT THE SHOW

This timeless tale reinvented the Gothic genre for modern audiences while Alfred Hitchcock’s masterful film adaptation further cemented its legend as one of the iconic tales of the twentieth century. Now Anne-Louise Sarks invites us back to this ghostly manor, conjuring up the living and the dead who haunt its halls.

Infidelity, manipulation and murder crowd in as du Maurier’s tightly knit narrative unfolds, and questions of identity, memory and obsession play out in spellbinding fashion. Performed by a powerhouse cast including Pamela Rabe (The Children), Nikki Shiels (A Streetcar Named Desire), Stephen Phillips (The Architect) and Toby Truslove (Utopia), Rebecca promises to be one of the major new productions of the Australian stage in 2025.

When a young woman falls hard for a dashing older widower, she moves to his bewitching country estate with no idea of the dark history that lies lurking amongst the grounds. The spectre of his first wife Rebecca infuses every shadowy corner while the domineering housekeeper Mrs Danvers is a constant watchful presence, determined to undermine her at every turn.

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Developed through Melbourne Theatre Company’s NEXT STAGE Writers’ Program, with the support of our Playwrights Giving Circle.

Accessibility

  • Wheelchair Accessible

  • Hearing Assistance

  • Audio Described

  • Tactile Tour

  • Open Captioning

  • Closed Captioning

  • Auslan Interpreted

Performance Type Performance Date(s)
Audio Described
by Vision Australia 		Saturday 18 October at 2pm
Tuesday 21 October at 6.30pm
Tactile Tour
at venue 		Saturday 18 October at 2pm (Tactile tour commences at 1pm)
Open Captioning
via screen 		Saturday 25 October at 2pm
Closed Captioning
GoTheatrical App 		Saturday 25 October at 2pm
Auslan Interpreted Tuesday 28 October at 6.30pm
Stephen Phillips

Stephen Phillips

Maxim

Stephen’s Melbourne Theatre Company work includes The Architect, Boy Gets Girl, Take Me Out, Metamorphoses, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Realism. He was also Assistant Director for Girls and Boys. Other stage credits include The Odyssey (Malthouse & Pert International Arts Festival); The Tempest, As You Like It and Timon of Athens (Bell Shakespeare); Black Swan (Melbourne & Perth International Arts Festivals); and Complexity of Belonging (Chunky Move & Melbourne International Arts Festival). He is also the Co-Artistic Director of, and performs with, physical theatre ensemble 5AngryMen. Feature film credits include Bring Her Back, The Returned and The Killer Elite. With television credits including Apple Cider Vinegar, Thai Cave Rescue, The Secret River, Offspring, Winners and Losers and Childhood’s End. Stephen also works extensively as a voiceover artist, audiobook narrator and motion capture artist.

Pamela Rabe

Pamela Rabe

Mrs Van Hopper / Mrs Danvers / Beatrice

Pamela Rabe has appeared in more than forty productions for Melbourne Theatre Company including Seventeen, The Children, The Cherry Orchard, Dinner, The Season At Sarsaparilla, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Little Night Music, Private Lives, A Room of One’s Own, Cosi, Lost in Yonkers, Much Ado About Nothing, Taming of the Shrew, The Heidi Chronicles, As You Like It, and Top Girls. She has worked extensively on stages, screens and concert halls around the country, most recently as Winnie in Happy Days (Sydney Theatre Company) and her award-winning performance as Violet Weston in August: Osage County (Belvoir). Pamela toured internationally during 2023-24 in Alexander Zeldin’s play The Confessions, including seasons at The National (UK) and Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe (Paris). Pamela also directs regularly for Sydney and Melbourne Theatre Companies. She has received many awards for her theatre, film and television work, and in 2023 was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in recognition of her distinguished services to the Arts.

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Nikki Shiels

Woman

Nikki is a multi-award-winning Australian actress whose career spans screen and stage. Most recently for Melbourne Theatre Company Nikki appeared as Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire. Her performance won the Critics' Choice: Best Performance in a Play at the 2025 Time Out Melbourne Cultural Awards. Other credits for the company include: Sunday, Girls & Boys, Home - I’m Darling, The Cherry Orchard, True Minds, Top Girls, The Importance of Being Earnest and Don Parties On. Notable recent theatre credits include The Picture of Dorian Gray, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Cheery Soul and Three Sisters (STC); My Brilliant Career, They Divided The Sky, The Sugar House, The Rover and Twelfth Night (Belvoir); Picnic at Hanging Rock, Night on Bald Mountain, The Dragon, and Elizabeth – Almost by Chance a Woman (Malthouse). Recent screen credits include The Last Anniversary, Inside, Prosper, Ten Pound Poms and The Newsreader.

Toby Truslove

Toby Truslove

Frank / Jack

Toby Truslove’s theatre credits include Home - I’m Darling, The Last Man Standing, The Speechmaker and The Cherry Orchard (Melbourne Theatre Company); Starfish the [redacted] (La Mama); 33 Variations (Comedy Theatre); The Beast (Ambassador Theatre Group); Children of the Sun (Sydney Theatre Company); Boomkak Panto, Private Lives, Bliss and Strange Interlude (Belvoir), for which he was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the Sydney Theatre Awards. Select television credits include Return to Paradise S2, Scrublands (S1–2), Rock Island Mysteries (S2–3), Utopia (S1–5), North Shore, La Brea, Ms Fisher’s Modern Mysteries (S1–2), Metro Sexual, Bad Mothers, Get Krack!n, True Story with Hamish and Andy, Wrong Kind of Black and Laid, for which he was nominated for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series from the Monte Carlo TV Festival. Select film credits include Koko: A Red Dog Story, The Eight Inch Pinch, Smoking Will Kill You, $quid, I Love You Too and upcoming film The Mongoose.

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Anne-Louise Sarks

Director

Anne-Louise Sarks is Artistic Director & Co-CEO of Melbourne Theatre Company, where her directing credits include The Removalists, My Brilliant Career, A Streetcar Named Desire, Escaped Alone & What If If Only and Bernhardt/Hamlet. An internationally acclaimed director, writer and dramaturg, Anne-Louise’s work has been staged in London, Basel, Helsinki, Mexico City, New York, Warsaw, Dublin, Sydney, Istanbul, Auckland, Mumbai, Perth and Melbourne. Recent productions include Carmen (Opera Australia); Avalanche (Barbican); Our Town, Medea (Theater Basel) Breaking The Waves (Opera Australia); and Stop Girl (Belvoir). Her adaptation of Medea, co-written with Kate Mulvany, won five Sydney Theatre Awards including Best Direction and an AWGIE for Best Stage Play. She received a Green Room Award nomination for Best Direction for both My Brilliant Career and Blasted (Malthouse). Anne-Louise has previously served as Artistic Director of the Lyric Ensemble at the Lyric Hammersmith in London and The Hayloft Project in Melbourne. She was also Resident Director at Belvoir, Director in Residence at Malthouse Theatre, and Emerging Resident Director at Melbourne Theatre Company in 2010. Previous work for Melbourne Theatre Company includes Minnie & Liraz and The Seed.

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Marg Horwell

Set & Costume Designer

Marg Horwell is a multi-award-winning set and costume designer. Select credits with Melbourne Theatre Company include My Brilliant Career, My Sister Jill, Escaped Alone & What If If Only, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Girls & Boys, The Truth, The House of Bernarda Alba, Lilith: The Jungle Girl, Birdland, I Call My Brothers and Peddling. Other credits include The Confessions (Alexander Zeldin Company/The National Theatre); Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Gray (STC/Michael Cassel Group); Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, How to Rule the World, Lord of the Flies, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Sydney Theatre Company); Because The Night, Blasted, Melancholia, Caravan, The Testament of Mary, Edward II, I Am a Miracle (Malthouse Theatre); The Confessions (Alexander Zeldin Company); The Marriage of Figaro, The Sopranos, The Human Voice & The Call (Opera Queensland); Lorelei (Opera Queensland/Victorian Opera); Die Tote Stadt (Oper Am Rhein, Dusseldorf); Salome (English National Opera), among others. Marg has won numerous awards, including a Tony Award and an Olivier Award for her costume designs in The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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Paul Jackson

Lighting Designer

Paul Jackson APDG is a multi-award-winning lighting and set designer, dramaturg and theatre practitioner whose practice encompasses theatre, opera, dance, music theatre, concerts, and live events. Paul Jackson’s lighting designs with Melbourne Theatre Company include Seventeen, Escaped Alone & What If If Only, Sunday, Cyrano, The Sound Inside, The Truth, Home, I’m Darling, Arbus and West, The Children, Gloria, Hay Fever, Di and Viv and Rose, Three Little Words, Endgame, Miss Julie, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Double Indemnity, The Ghost Writer, Ghosts, Dinner, Frozen, The Speechmaker, Enlightenment, Madagascar and Private Lives. Paul has won a Helpmann Award, two Sydney Theatre Awards, seven Green Room Awards, a Critics' Award for Theatre in Scotland, and seven Australian Production Design Guild Awards. He is a Churchill Fellow and an Australia Council Fellow, was an Artistic Associate at Malthouse Theatre, and has lectured in design at the University of Melbourne, RMIT University and VCA.

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Grace Ferguson

Co-Composer & Sound Designer

Grace Ferguson is an instrumentalist, composer and music teacher, represented as an Associate Artist by the Australian Music Centre. Past works for theatre include: On the Beach (Sydney Theatre Company); Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre/Sydney Theatre Company); What’s Yours (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre); Julius Caesar (Melbourne Shakespeare Company); We All Know What is Happening (Zurich Theatre Spektakel; Noorderzon Festival; Arts House; Campbelltown Arts Centre; Vitalstatistix). As a musician she has released solo works Voler LP (Music Company Records) and collaborated with a wide range of celebrated Australian artists for various live and recorded projects. Her awards include: Best Original Score for a Main Stage Production, 2024 Sydney Theatre Awards (On the Beach, Sydney Theatre Company), APRA PD Awards finalist 2024 (Classical/Experimental), Bundanon artist in residence in collaboration with choreographer Zoë Bastin and resident at La Cité internationale des arts through the support of Creative Australia.

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Joe Paradise Lui

Co-Composer & Sound Designer

Joe Paradise Lui is a submerging artist and undisputed winner of the 2013 Spirit of the Fringe award.  It has won no awards since. Joe Lui is a founding member of Renegade Productions. Within its aegis it creates experimental theatre and performance works. Joe Lui is also a freelance director, writer, and a sound and lighting designer. Its most recent professional directing work was as Assistant Director on A Streetcar Named Desire (Melbourne Theatre Company). Its most recent independent directing work was Whitesnake3000, presented at Co3.

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Amy Cater

Intimacy Coordinator

Amy Cater is part of the first cohort of qualified Intimacy Coordinator practitioners, training and working since 2018 when the profession first arrived in Australia. Previous stage works include A Streetcar Named Desire, Cost of Living, Is God Is, Seventeen, Jacky, Cyrano, Sunday, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Fun Home, As You Like It (Melbourne Theatre Company); Oscar (The Australian Ballet); and &Juliet (Michael Cassel Group). Selected screen credits include Love Me, The Newsreader, The Rooster, Bad Behaviour, The Clearing, Safe Home, Swift St, Sleeping Dogs, Erotic Stories, Better Man, Inside and Exposure. Amy has 20 years’ experience working with sexuality, embodiment, consent and intimacy; specifically within the adult industry, client therapy and education spaces. Amy was a director/senior photographer of ethical erotica for 4 years. She is a qualified psychosomatic therapist, sexological bodyworker and somatic sex educator. Amy has a trained background in theatre, dance and the performing arts. Amy mentors and consults on sexuality and gender best practice. Her work in LGBTQIA+ advocacy and education is a key component of her cultural influence in the Intimacy Coordinator industry.

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Geraldine Cook-Dafner

Voice & Text Coach

Geraldine Cook-Dafner previously worked for Melbourne Theatre Company on A Streetcar Named Desire, Meet Me at Dawn, Escaped Alone and What If If Only, I Wanna Be Yours, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Sunday, Girls & Boys, The Lifespan of a Fact, Home, I’m Darling, Golden Shield, Wild, The Children, Hay Fever, Di and Viv and Rose, Melbourne Talam, John, The Odd Couple, Straight White Men, The Distance, Birdland, The Waiting Room, Top Girls, The Heretic, The Swimming Club, The 39 Steps, The History Boys, All My Sons, The Clean House, Boy Gets Girl, Take Me Out and The Glass Menagerie. She was the voice and dialect coach for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, &Juliet and The Picture of Dorian Gray (London/New York) and has worked for ABC, SBS and Musica Viva. Geraldine holds a doctorate from the University of Melbourne and is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne, where previously she held positions as Head of Voice, Head of School of Performing Arts and Associate Dean.

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Giovanna Yate Gonzalez

Associate Lighting Designer

Giovanna Yate Gonzalez is a Colombian professional dancer who has expanded her skill set in Australia through a Bachelor of Production in Lighting Design at VCA. Her design credits span both dance and theatre productions, including Queers of Java with Lengger artist Rianto Manali (Sydney Dance Company); Amelia Jean O’Leary’s STAUNCH ASF (Melbourne Fringe); Lush (Dancehouse / Melbourne Fringe); Siren Dance (Sydney Dance Company / Homo Novus Festival); Fast Food, Shhhh (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre); Slutnik TM (Melbourne Fringe / Adelaide Fringe); Warp and Woof (Federation University). Giovanna is part of Melbourne Theatre Company’s inaugural Future Creatives program and was part of the Besen Artistic Program at Malthouse as Lighting Designer in 2023.

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Louisa Mignone

Assistant Director

Louisa made her Melbourne Theatre Company debut on stage in The Almighty Sometimes. Other theatre credits include Death of a Salesman (GWB Entertainment/Red Line Productions); The Fence (Darebin Arts/29 Scenes); Anna K (Malthouse Theatre); Mortido (Belvoir); The Club (State Theatre Company South Australia); Antigone (Sport For Jove); The Pork Stiletto (The Old Fitzroy); The Boys (Griffin Theatre Company); Fugitive, Boom Bah! (Windmill Theatre); Actors At Work (Bell Shakespeare Company). She is a founding member of Adelaide-based theatre company isthisyours?, whose original works have toured nationally and picked up numerous awards. Louisa’s film and television highlights include The Mongoose, Fake, The Twelve (S1), Scrublands, Australian Gangster, Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries (S1–2), Wentworth (S8–9), Halifax Retribution, Secret City: Under the Eagle, Rake (S2–4), How to Stay Married (S2), Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Fat Tony & Co, My Place, East West 101, Infini, Two Fists One Heart, and Latte e Miele, which she also created.

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Ishan Vivekanantham

Assistant Set & Costume Designer

Ishan Vivekanantham is a multidisciplinary artist specialising in set and costume design for live performance. A graduate of the Master of Production Design at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), his work spans theatre, cabaret, musical, opera, and ballet. His recent credits include Inconsolable + 4 (dir. Georgina Naidu); My Mum Died and I Wanna Sing About It (Theatreworks, dir. Lincoln Gidney); Krapp’s Last Tape (dir. Lincoln Gidney); I Love You, Faustus (Unspooled Theatre Collective, dir. Sabina Donato); Twelfth Night (Melbourne Shakespeare Company, dir. Jennifer Sarah Dean); The Lyrebird’s Voice (Victorian Opera, dir. Elizabeth Hill); and Storytime: Cinderella (The Australian Ballet, dir. David McAllister). Ishan’s craft and passion for scenography have been recognised with the Cassidy Bequest – Production Scholarship (2022) and the Trina Parker Scholarship (2023). In 2025, he joined Melbourne Theatre Company’s Future Creatives program and was the inaugural recipient of the Truscott Prize, awarded in recognition of his artistic vision and commitment to the future of theatrical storytelling.

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