Tag: "MTC"

Menagarie
0 Comments. 136 Views. Posted 22 May 2013 @ 11:01am.
Tennessee Williams’ writing is heavily branded with ageing beauties and consumption of dangerous volumes of liquor, stories of Southern belles, aspirations of high society and nihilistic desperation. Though A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof are his most commercially successful works, The Glass Menagerie, by all accounts, is the most personal and... Read More
MTC Announces True Minds
0 Comments. 749 Views. Posted 21 Mar 2013 @ 8:22am.
Melbourne Theatre company has announced the world premiere of critically acclaimed playwright Joanna Murray-Smith's True Minds.   With nuptials looming, the play's protagonist Daisy faces a daunting introduction to her coiffed and conservative future mother-in-law, played by Louise Slverson. Alcoholic ex-boyfriends and uninhibited left-wing parents impede Daisy on her path to marital bliss... Read More
Silent
0 Comments. 262 Views. Posted 1 Feb 2013 @ 7:15am.
Irishman Pat Kinevane is coming to Melbourne with his award-winning one-man play, Silent. The writer-star of the production has been praised by The Guardian for the “dazzling theatricality” of his performance while Silent has collected multiple prestigious awards and been labelled “riveting” and a “must-see if ever there was one” by the British press. High praise indeed.... Read More
Elling
0 Comments. 369 Views. Posted 6 Nov 2012 @ 8:31am.
The anxiety-prone have a special spot reserved for them in fiction, from the canon of Woody Allen’s characters to the less approachable Rainman. Often these portraits are flat. Often they command little sympathy. But Elling’s is a world where the neurotic and eternally anxious are painted in a brilliance of three dimensions.  In a loving, sentimental ballad that seems both addressed to... Read More
Elling
0 Comments. 683 Views. Posted 31 Oct 2012 @ 5:59am.
Adapted from a novel by Ingvar Ambjorns, then an Oscar-nominated 2001 film, MTC’s Elling casts an affectionate glance over the mentally ill. Title character Elling is sensitive, shy and a little neurotic, Kjell Bjarne is obsessed with sex, and when cast out from their present accommodation in an Oslo institution, their individual idiosyncrasies test their ability to belong to a new world. Hayden... Read More
Top Girls
0 Comments. 540 Views. Posted 17 Sep 2012 @ 10:13pm.
The MTC’s Top Girls opens in a sumptuous feast of dreamy surrealism.  On the eve of a promotion, Marlene is visited by a cast of historical females, both real and fictional, and they’re preparing for a celebratory spread. Humanitarian; Buddhist monk; the first female Pope and an obedient commoner-turned noblewoman are all represented here in their finery. Conversation is easy while trading... Read More
Melbourne Theatre Company 2013 Season
0 Comments. 1,539 Views. Posted 31 Aug 2012 @ 5:16am.
Founded in 1953, the Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC) is the oldest professional theatre company in Australia and one of the most vital institutions to this city's artistic heartbeat. Approaching its Diamond Jubilee in 2013, and while constantly evolving, progressing and revolutionising both Melbourne and Australian theatre, the Company still holds its treasured mission foremost, "to produce... Read More
Top Girls Comes To Melbourne Theatre Company
0 Comments. 1,817 Views. Posted 13 Aug 2012 @ 11:45am.
We love a good political stance, and what better one than expressed through theatre? Top Girls is ground-breaking playwright Caryl Churchill’s response to the rise of Margaret Thatcher, and its subject of female power is as pertinent today as it was in the 1980s. One of twentieth century’s classic plays, Top Girls finds a perfect match in the uniquely talented Jenny Kemp, who will... Read More
One Man, Two Guvnors
0 Comments. 881 Views. Posted 1 Aug 2012 @ 12:13pm.
Lucky for us, Arts Centre Melbourne and MTC are stoked to announce that Richard Bean’s riotously funny adaptation, One Man, Two Guvnors, will make its way down to Melbourne. Unlucky for us, though, we’re going to have to wait until next year to get our dose.  Directed by Nicholas Hytner, this British slapstick hit received seven 2012 Tony nominations and was awarded Best New Play in the... Read More
The Golden Dragon
0 Comments. 778 Views. Posted 14 Jun 2012 @ 10:53am.
Plates of soggy prawn crackers, mountains of plastic bowls and the frenetic dining pace of a Chinese restaurant are familiar comforts to many cuisiniers in the Western world. But do you ever wonder who made you that Szechwan beef? Of course you didn’t, because you were too busy devouring it so voraciously you’re left gasping for air and beating at your chest like the primate you’re descended from... Read More
On The Production Of Monsters
0 Comments. 1,028 Views. Posted 22 May 2012 @ 2:44pm.
On an appropriately funereal Wednesday at the Melbourne Theatre Company, director Clare Watson considers what it is to live in this city. “There’s nothing earnest about Melburnians, which is quite charming,” she ponders. But while we could be summed up collectively with a number of Melbourne-centric statements – a fondness for cloudy days, coffee snobbery bordering on fetish, black garb and many... Read More
MTC Lawler Studio Season 2012
0 Comments. 1,297 Views. Posted 2 Mar 2012 @ 8:52am.
  As Australia’s oldest professional theatre company, the Melbourne Theatre Company has in recent years gained a reputation for traditionalism. They may be one of the most popular companies in the country, taking a record 20,000 subscriptions in 2010, but they are not renowned for taking programming risks. MTC set out to challenge this perception with the launch of their Lawler Studio in... Read More
MTC Showcases Young Australian Talent
0 Comments. 1,848 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:20am.
Six of Australia’s hottest emerging artists will present the second round of Melbourne Theatre Company’s Cybec Readings on 18, 19 and 20 November 2010 at the MTC Theatre.   Over the past six months, three writers and three directors were partnered up and, under the guidance and direction of the Melbourne Theatre Company, have each developed a wonderful new script. These works... Read More
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