Melbourne Theatre Company

Playwright and award-winning journalist Sally Sara AM talks to MTC Artistic Director & Co-CEO Anne-Louise Sarks. Get to know Anne-Louise and hear about her artistic passions as she prepares to launch her inaugural season for Melbourne Theatre Company.

Paul Rae is Head of the School of Culture and Communications and an Associate Professor in Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of two books – Real Theatre: Essays in Experience (published in 2019) and Theatre & Human Rights (published in 2009) and is currently working on two others. Alongside Kaylene Tan, Paul was co-director of the Singapore-based theatre company Spell Seven Performance Club. He has a wealth of experience in contemporary theatre practices both in Melbourne and overseas. Here, in an interview recorded over Zoom during the Covid-19 pandemic, he shares his understanding of how a city, particularly its urban landscape and design, affects the production and reception of theatre and other live performance. __ This interview was produced by MTC Education as part of Melbourne Knowledge Week. MTC Education provides audiences with insight into the theatre making processes used at MTC to produce its world class theatre productions. This interview compliments MTC’s

Kaylene Tan is a theatre maker from Singapore with a large body of performance, audio and site-specific theatre work. She has been the recipient of numerous fellowships for her work as a writer, director and performer. Alongside Paul Rae, she was co-director of the theatre company, Spell Seven - a performance company with a distinctive and inventive focus on the ways history, culture and politics intersect in everyday life through intimate theatrical performances and environmental sound works.  Here, in an interview recorded over Zoom during the Covid-19 pandemic, Kaylene shares her understanding of how a city, particularly its urban landscape and design, affect the production and reception of theatre and other live performance. __ This interview was produced by MTC Education as part of Melbourne Knowledge Week. MTC Education provides audiences with insight into the theatre making processes used at MTC to produce its world class theatre productions. This interview compliments MTC’s latest production, B

From her home in Los Angeles, playwright Lally Katz creates a monologue for MTC that began as a reflection on Melbourne during a time of great change and evolved into a waking dream about life, death, past, present and pandemics. The monologue is performed by Emily Goddard, directed by MTC Associate Director Petra Kalive and with a sound design by Emah Fox.

Join us for an in-depth conversation with dance & theatre dramaturg Ruth Little as we discuss making a life in-between scripts, working in the varied worlds of theatre companies and dance studios, and the art of dramaturgy. Throughout 2020, dance & theatre dramaturg Ruth Little has been taking part in the University of Melbourne’s Macgeorge Fellowship program. Now, she join us for an insightful conversation on the craft of dramaturgy with MTC Literary Director Chris Mead.

Join us as we relive our 2016 In Conversation event with internationally renowned UK playwright and screenwriter Sir David Hare. During his illustrious career, David Hare has written more than 30 plays including Plenty, Racing Demon, Amy’s View and Skylight. He has received two Academy Award nominations for his screenplay adaptations of The Hours and The Reader. In this event presented by Melbourne Theatre Company in partnership with The Wheeler Centre, David Hare spoke with Australian barrister and writer Julian Burnside about politics, art and the writing life.

As the colder weather creeps up, there’s no better time to dream of summer. So settle in with our audio recording of director and playwright Andrea James, discussing her new play Sunshine Super Girl, ahead of its season at the Sumner in November. You will hear Andrea James discuss her new play, Sunshine Super Girl – the remarkable story of Australian sporting legend Evonne Goolagong, a girl from the bush who rose to become the number one tennis player in the world and a household name by the age of 19. Recorded as part of MTC at MPavilion in January, it features James in conversation with MTC Literary Associate Jenni Medway, and well as excerpts from this new work read by Leonie Whyman. Sunshine Super Girl by Andrea James is produced by Performing Lines.

Award-winning writer and TV personality Nakkiah Lui talks to STC Content Manager Carl Nilson-Polias about her motivations for writing this hugely-successful play. Lui shows us why she is one of this country’s most incisive comedy writers, with a home-grown satire that is both subversive and thoroughly entertaining. Buy tickets to Black is the New White at mtc.com.au

Playwright Louis Nowra tells Fiona Gruber about the people who changed his life, and how they came to form the inspiration behind his iconic play Cosí. https://www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-tickets/season-2019/cosi/

MTC Associate Director Sarah Goodes speaks to Sarah Corridon about the character Nora Helmer and the assumptions that have been made about her for over 100 years.

MTC Associate Director Dean Bryant chats to Sarah Corridon about the many layers of Wild.

British playwright Mike Bartlett chats to Fiona Gruber about his riveting, contemporary thriller — Wild.

In the lead up to Stephen Nicolazzo's vivid revival of the 1970s classic, Abigail's Party, we asked some lifestyle experts to help us put together the Perfect 70s Party Guide. As you prepare the menu for your guests, listen to Food Educator and author Alice Zaslavsky as she chats with one of Melbourne's best-loved food writers, Rita Erlich about the decade's culinary experiments.

Legendary playwright and film maker Mike Leigh speaks to Fiona Gruber about why his tragicomic play, Abigail's Party, remains such a cult classic 40 years on.

British playwright Lucy Kirkwood chats to Fiona Gruber about her new play The Children.

Eddie Perfect discusses the most personal of his 14 songs in Vivid White - ‘Edinburgh 2005’ + Demo Recording.

Musical comedy genius Eddie Perfect and MTC Associate Director Dean Bryant talk to Sarah Corridon about the first time they met, their time studying Performing Arts at WAAPA, and the work that goes into creating a new Australian Musical.

Theatre luminary John Bell talks to Sarah Corridon about his love of Shakespeare, his role in Australia's new wave theatre movement, and his upcoming performance in a powerful, funny and deeply moving play, The Father.

Sarah Corridon chats to Director Stephen Nicolazzo about his upcoming production of Mike Leigh's classic 70s drama, Abigail's Party.

Sarah Corridon chats to MTC Associate Director Sarah Goodes about the plays she'll be directing in 2018 – The Children, A Doll's House, Part 2 and Astroman.