The Melbourne Theatre Company (popularly known as MTC) is a theatre company based in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1953 as the Union Theatre Repertory Company, it is the oldest professional theatre company in Australia, and has its own theatre, Southbank Theatre – which houses the 500-seat Sumner and the 150-seat Lawler – located in Melbourne's Arts Precinct in Southbank. Despite being recognised as Victoria's State theatre company, it comes under the auspices of the University of Melbourne. Currently, it offers a Mainstage Season of ten to twelve plays each year, a season of new and emerging works (Neon Festival of Independent Theatre), and an Education Season along with affiliate writers programs. It has a current subscriber base of 19,816 people and plays to a quarter of a million people annually.
History
The Melbourne Theatre Company was founded in 1953 by John Sumner as the Union Theatre Repertory Company, based at the Union Theatre of the University of Melbourne's Student Union building. Sumner's original idea was to present a season of plays over those months when the Union Theatre was not being used by student drama societies. It was Australia's first professional repertory theatre, presenting a new play every two weeks during the season. Later, that became three weekly repertory. The first play, Jean Anouilh's Colombe, opened on 31 August 1953, starring Zoe Caldwell (who was later to have considerable success on Broadway), George Fairfax and Alex Scott.
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art and stagecraft are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe").
Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from ancient Greek drama, from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, and many of its themes, stock characters, and plot elements. Theatre artist Patrice Pavis defines theatricality, theatrical language, stage writing, and the specificity of theatre as synonymous expressions that differentiate theatre from the other performing arts, literature, and the arts in general.
Melbourne (/ˈmɛlbərn/, AUi/ˈmɛlbən/) is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia and Oceania. The name "Melbourne" refers to the area of urban agglomeration (as well as a census statistical division) spanning 9,900km2 (3,800sqmi) which comprises the broader metropolitan area, as well as being the common name for its city centre. The metropolis is located on the large natural bay of Port Phillip and expands into the hinterlands towards the Dandenong and Macedon mountain ranges, Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley. Melbourne consists of 31 municipalities. It has a population of 4,347,955 as of 2013, and its inhabitants are called Melburnians.
Founded by free settlers from the BritishCrown colony of Van Diemen's Land on 30 August 1835, in what was then the colony of New South Wales, it was incorporated as a Crown settlement in 1837. It was named "Melbourne" by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Richard Bourke, in honour of the British Prime Minister of the day, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. It was officially declared a city by Queen Victoria in 1847, after which it became the capital of the newly founded colony of Victoria in 1851. During the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s, it was transformed into one of the world's largest and wealthiest cities. After the federation of Australia in 1901, it served as the nation's interim seat of government until 1927.
The domain name was originally allocated by Jon Postel, operator of IANA to Kevin Robert Elz of Melbourne University in 1986. After an approximately five-year process in the 1990s, the Internet industry created a self-regulatory body called .au Domain Administration to operate the domain. It obtained assent from ICANN in 2001, and commenced operating a new competitive regime for domain registration on 1 July 2002. Since this new regime, any registration has to be ordered via a registrar.
Operation
Oversight of .au is by .au Domain Administration (auDA). It is a not-for-profit organisation whose membership is derived from Internet organisations, industry members and interested individuals. The organisation operates under the consent of the Australian government which has legislative power to decide the operators of electronic addressing in the country.
Policy for .au is devised by policy development panels. These panels are convened by auDA and combine public input with industry representation to derive policy.
Melbourne is a compilation album by the Models, recorded in the early 1980s and released in 2001. The album was distributed by Shock Records.
The album was compiled by dedicated Models fan, Mark Burchett (a band booking agent for Premier Artists), who compiled sixteen cuts of the Models' material before they signed with Mushroom Records, consisting of demos, studio cuts and live tracks with the assistance of Melbourne public radio station 3RRRFM. The liner notes for the album are written by Australian Rock historian Ian McFarlane.
Track listing
"Body Shop" - 5:37
"Current Affair" - 3:30
"Whisper Through The Wall" - 3:43
"Party Girls" - 4:58
"Atlantic Romantic" - 5:09
"The Other People Incident" - 5:27
"Golden Arches" - 3:59
"John From Earth" - 4:32
"Brave New World" - 3:46
"Early Morning Brain (It's not quite the same as Sobriety)" - 4:26
Welcome to Season 2024!
Home-grown stories and the most in-demand international plays. Brave perspectives and daring performances. Familiar masterpieces and new favourites you won’t forget. Heartbreaking romance, gut-busting comedy and provocative, insightful drama. And that’s not even the half of it.
Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks has pulled out all the stops for Season 2024 and we’re thrilled to share the 12 unmissable plays taking to our stages next year.
Explore Season 2024 at https://www.mtc.com.au/
Video by SIRAP
Music by Joe Paradise Lui
published: 13 Sep 2023
Trailer | The Almighty Sometimes
Check out the trailer for The Almighty Sometimes on stage now at Southbank Theatre.
👭 When 18-year-old Anna stumbles upon stories she wrote as a child she discovers a thrilling but unfamiliar imagination bursting from the pages. Now she's determined to discover who she is without the label that has defined most of her life, but her pursuit pits her against her seemingly well-meaning mother, boyfriend and the therapist she no longer sees as an ally.
Join us as Nadine Garner, Max McKenna, Louisa Mignone and Karl Richmond star in this fiercely honest coming-of-age story exploring the perils of adolescence and growing up with mental illness.
🎟️ The Almighty Sometimes is now playing until 18 May. Book tickets at https://mtc.com.au/the-almighty-sometimes/
Video by Einwick
published: 22 Apr 2024
Melbourne Theatre Company | Season 2025 Trailer
Season 2025: Your front row seat to international premieres, Tony Award winners, Australian debuts and works that could only have been made right here in Melbourne.
Brought together by Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks, we can't wait to share these 13 incredible plays with you.
Check out more of Season 2025 at https://www.mtc.com.au/
Video by @einwick8876
Music by Joe Paradise Lui
published: 12 Sep 2024
Trailer | English
Check out the trailer for English, on stage now at Southbank Theatre.
A small classroom in Iran is the birthplace for a big-hearted comedy. Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, English is a story of falling in love with your own voice.
🎟️ English is now playing until 29 August. Book tickets at
Video by Einwick
published: 06 Aug 2024
Melbourne Theatre Company | Season 2016 Trailer
Welcome to a season of theatrical storytelling at its best.
From classic comedy The Odd Couple starring Shaun Micallef and Francis Greenslade, or Ladies in Black - the heart-bursting new musical with songs by Tim Finn - through to Pulitzer-Prize winner Disgraced starring Kat Stewart, we invite you to lose yourself, and find something new.
See the full season at http://bit.ly/1NeIiBJ
Music: Force from Within by Adam Salkeld and Neil Pollard
published: 07 Sep 2015
Trailer | A Streetcar Named Desire
Check out the trailer for A Streetcar Named Desire, on stage now at Arts Centre Melbourne.
Experience the raw intensity of Tennessee Williams's classic masterpiece – one of the most critically acclaimed plays of the twentieth century – reimagined by Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks. Set against the backdrop of a 1940s New Orleans, yet pulsing with contemporary energy, A Streetcar Named Desire's timeless exploration of aggression, desire and deception is testament to theatre’s enduring power to hold up a mirror and ask us what we see.
🎟️ A Streetcar Named Desire is now playing until 17 August. Book tickets at https://www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-tickets/whats-on/season-2024/a-streetcar-named-desire/
Video by SIRAP
A Streetcar Named Desire is presented by special arrangement with the Univ...
published: 16 Jul 2024
Cost of Living | Meet Aaron and Vinnie Pedersen
Since he was 27, Aaron Pedersen has been his brother Vinnie Pedersen's full-time carer. Vinnie has accompanied Aaron on acting roles all around Australia, including here at Melbourne Theatre Company.
We've loved having Vinnie in the room since day one of rehearsals for Cost of Living, where Aaron stars as Eddie Torres.
Cost of Living is on now at Southbank Theatre until 19 October.
Book your tickets at https://www.mtc.com.au/cost-of-living/
Video by Eva Otsing
published: 12 Sep 2024
Southbank Theatre Tour (Open House Melbourne 2020)
As part of Open House Melbourne, head backstage to areas usually unseen by the public in this guided video tour around Southbank Theatre led by MTC’s Theatre Operations Director, Mark Wheeler.
Want to learn more about the theatre? Send us your questions here and we'll answer them throughout the week: https://bit.ly/3hx8ieQ
published: 25 Jul 2020
Melbourne Theatre Company Season 2023 Reveal
Explore Season 2023 – a new artistic era for Melbourne Theatre Company that will broaden the conversation like never before.
Hear from Artistic Director & Co-CEO Anne-Louise Sarks as she reveals her inaugural season that celebrates new perspectives – through stories that haven’t been heard before and familiar stories told in new ways.
And meet some of the talented actors that will bring these 12 new worlds to life, from brilliant new Australian works to contemporary classics and the most exciting international shows making their Australian premieres.
Join us in the room to experience what only theatre can do.
https://www.mtc.com.au
Video by Silky Jazz Films with Eva Otsing (Anne-Louise Sarks footage)
published: 14 Sep 2022
Meet the Team | Seventeen
There’s no better way to kick off Season 2024 than with this playful look back at a pivotal moment in nearly every young person’s life: the final day of high school. Six teens assemble at the local park to celebrate the great unknown that is their future. Through wild drinking, wilder dancing, regrettable pashes and jaw-dropping confessions, no one will be left unchanged by this night.
Meet the cast and director bringing Australian playwright Matthew Whittet's Seventeen to the stage.
Book your tickets at https://www.mtc.com.au/seventeen
Video by Eva Otsing
Welcome to Season 2024!
Home-grown stories and the most in-demand international plays. Brave perspectives and daring performances. Familiar masterpieces and ne...
Welcome to Season 2024!
Home-grown stories and the most in-demand international plays. Brave perspectives and daring performances. Familiar masterpieces and new favourites you won’t forget. Heartbreaking romance, gut-busting comedy and provocative, insightful drama. And that’s not even the half of it.
Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks has pulled out all the stops for Season 2024 and we’re thrilled to share the 12 unmissable plays taking to our stages next year.
Explore Season 2024 at https://www.mtc.com.au/
Video by SIRAP
Music by Joe Paradise Lui
Welcome to Season 2024!
Home-grown stories and the most in-demand international plays. Brave perspectives and daring performances. Familiar masterpieces and new favourites you won’t forget. Heartbreaking romance, gut-busting comedy and provocative, insightful drama. And that’s not even the half of it.
Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks has pulled out all the stops for Season 2024 and we’re thrilled to share the 12 unmissable plays taking to our stages next year.
Explore Season 2024 at https://www.mtc.com.au/
Video by SIRAP
Music by Joe Paradise Lui
Check out the trailer for The Almighty Sometimes on stage now at Southbank Theatre.
👭 When 18-year-old Anna stumbles upon stories she wrote as a child she disc...
Check out the trailer for The Almighty Sometimes on stage now at Southbank Theatre.
👭 When 18-year-old Anna stumbles upon stories she wrote as a child she discovers a thrilling but unfamiliar imagination bursting from the pages. Now she's determined to discover who she is without the label that has defined most of her life, but her pursuit pits her against her seemingly well-meaning mother, boyfriend and the therapist she no longer sees as an ally.
Join us as Nadine Garner, Max McKenna, Louisa Mignone and Karl Richmond star in this fiercely honest coming-of-age story exploring the perils of adolescence and growing up with mental illness.
🎟️ The Almighty Sometimes is now playing until 18 May. Book tickets at https://mtc.com.au/the-almighty-sometimes/
Video by Einwick
Check out the trailer for The Almighty Sometimes on stage now at Southbank Theatre.
👭 When 18-year-old Anna stumbles upon stories she wrote as a child she discovers a thrilling but unfamiliar imagination bursting from the pages. Now she's determined to discover who she is without the label that has defined most of her life, but her pursuit pits her against her seemingly well-meaning mother, boyfriend and the therapist she no longer sees as an ally.
Join us as Nadine Garner, Max McKenna, Louisa Mignone and Karl Richmond star in this fiercely honest coming-of-age story exploring the perils of adolescence and growing up with mental illness.
🎟️ The Almighty Sometimes is now playing until 18 May. Book tickets at https://mtc.com.au/the-almighty-sometimes/
Video by Einwick
Season 2025: Your front row seat to international premieres, Tony Award winners, Australian debuts and works that could only have been made right here in Melbou...
Season 2025: Your front row seat to international premieres, Tony Award winners, Australian debuts and works that could only have been made right here in Melbourne.
Brought together by Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks, we can't wait to share these 13 incredible plays with you.
Check out more of Season 2025 at https://www.mtc.com.au/
Video by @einwick8876
Music by Joe Paradise Lui
Season 2025: Your front row seat to international premieres, Tony Award winners, Australian debuts and works that could only have been made right here in Melbourne.
Brought together by Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks, we can't wait to share these 13 incredible plays with you.
Check out more of Season 2025 at https://www.mtc.com.au/
Video by @einwick8876
Music by Joe Paradise Lui
Check out the trailer for English, on stage now at Southbank Theatre.
A small classroom in Iran is the birthplace for a big-hearted comedy. Winner of the 2023...
Check out the trailer for English, on stage now at Southbank Theatre.
A small classroom in Iran is the birthplace for a big-hearted comedy. Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, English is a story of falling in love with your own voice.
🎟️ English is now playing until 29 August. Book tickets at
Video by Einwick
Check out the trailer for English, on stage now at Southbank Theatre.
A small classroom in Iran is the birthplace for a big-hearted comedy. Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, English is a story of falling in love with your own voice.
🎟️ English is now playing until 29 August. Book tickets at
Video by Einwick
Welcome to a season of theatrical storytelling at its best.
From classic comedy The Odd Couple starring Shaun Micallef and Francis Greenslade, or Ladies in Bl...
Welcome to a season of theatrical storytelling at its best.
From classic comedy The Odd Couple starring Shaun Micallef and Francis Greenslade, or Ladies in Black - the heart-bursting new musical with songs by Tim Finn - through to Pulitzer-Prize winner Disgraced starring Kat Stewart, we invite you to lose yourself, and find something new.
See the full season at http://bit.ly/1NeIiBJ
Music: Force from Within by Adam Salkeld and Neil Pollard
Welcome to a season of theatrical storytelling at its best.
From classic comedy The Odd Couple starring Shaun Micallef and Francis Greenslade, or Ladies in Black - the heart-bursting new musical with songs by Tim Finn - through to Pulitzer-Prize winner Disgraced starring Kat Stewart, we invite you to lose yourself, and find something new.
See the full season at http://bit.ly/1NeIiBJ
Music: Force from Within by Adam Salkeld and Neil Pollard
Check out the trailer for A Streetcar Named Desire, on stage now at Arts Centre Melbourne.
Experience the raw intensity of Tennessee Williams's classic masterp...
Check out the trailer for A Streetcar Named Desire, on stage now at Arts Centre Melbourne.
Experience the raw intensity of Tennessee Williams's classic masterpiece – one of the most critically acclaimed plays of the twentieth century – reimagined by Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks. Set against the backdrop of a 1940s New Orleans, yet pulsing with contemporary energy, A Streetcar Named Desire's timeless exploration of aggression, desire and deception is testament to theatre’s enduring power to hold up a mirror and ask us what we see.
🎟️ A Streetcar Named Desire is now playing until 17 August. Book tickets at https://www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-tickets/whats-on/season-2024/a-streetcar-named-desire/
Video by SIRAP
A Streetcar Named Desire is presented by special arrangement with the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
Check out the trailer for A Streetcar Named Desire, on stage now at Arts Centre Melbourne.
Experience the raw intensity of Tennessee Williams's classic masterpiece – one of the most critically acclaimed plays of the twentieth century – reimagined by Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks. Set against the backdrop of a 1940s New Orleans, yet pulsing with contemporary energy, A Streetcar Named Desire's timeless exploration of aggression, desire and deception is testament to theatre’s enduring power to hold up a mirror and ask us what we see.
🎟️ A Streetcar Named Desire is now playing until 17 August. Book tickets at https://www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-tickets/whats-on/season-2024/a-streetcar-named-desire/
Video by SIRAP
A Streetcar Named Desire is presented by special arrangement with the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
Since he was 27, Aaron Pedersen has been his brother Vinnie Pedersen's full-time carer. Vinnie has accompanied Aaron on acting roles all around Australia, inclu...
Since he was 27, Aaron Pedersen has been his brother Vinnie Pedersen's full-time carer. Vinnie has accompanied Aaron on acting roles all around Australia, including here at Melbourne Theatre Company.
We've loved having Vinnie in the room since day one of rehearsals for Cost of Living, where Aaron stars as Eddie Torres.
Cost of Living is on now at Southbank Theatre until 19 October.
Book your tickets at https://www.mtc.com.au/cost-of-living/
Video by Eva Otsing
Since he was 27, Aaron Pedersen has been his brother Vinnie Pedersen's full-time carer. Vinnie has accompanied Aaron on acting roles all around Australia, including here at Melbourne Theatre Company.
We've loved having Vinnie in the room since day one of rehearsals for Cost of Living, where Aaron stars as Eddie Torres.
Cost of Living is on now at Southbank Theatre until 19 October.
Book your tickets at https://www.mtc.com.au/cost-of-living/
Video by Eva Otsing
As part of Open House Melbourne, head backstage to areas usually unseen by the public in this guided video tour around Southbank Theatre led by MTC’s Theatre Op...
As part of Open House Melbourne, head backstage to areas usually unseen by the public in this guided video tour around Southbank Theatre led by MTC’s Theatre Operations Director, Mark Wheeler.
Want to learn more about the theatre? Send us your questions here and we'll answer them throughout the week: https://bit.ly/3hx8ieQ
As part of Open House Melbourne, head backstage to areas usually unseen by the public in this guided video tour around Southbank Theatre led by MTC’s Theatre Operations Director, Mark Wheeler.
Want to learn more about the theatre? Send us your questions here and we'll answer them throughout the week: https://bit.ly/3hx8ieQ
Explore Season 2023 – a new artistic era for Melbourne Theatre Company that will broaden the conversation like never before.
Hear from Artistic Director & Co-C...
Explore Season 2023 – a new artistic era for Melbourne Theatre Company that will broaden the conversation like never before.
Hear from Artistic Director & Co-CEO Anne-Louise Sarks as she reveals her inaugural season that celebrates new perspectives – through stories that haven’t been heard before and familiar stories told in new ways.
And meet some of the talented actors that will bring these 12 new worlds to life, from brilliant new Australian works to contemporary classics and the most exciting international shows making their Australian premieres.
Join us in the room to experience what only theatre can do.
https://www.mtc.com.au
Video by Silky Jazz Films with Eva Otsing (Anne-Louise Sarks footage)
Explore Season 2023 – a new artistic era for Melbourne Theatre Company that will broaden the conversation like never before.
Hear from Artistic Director & Co-CEO Anne-Louise Sarks as she reveals her inaugural season that celebrates new perspectives – through stories that haven’t been heard before and familiar stories told in new ways.
And meet some of the talented actors that will bring these 12 new worlds to life, from brilliant new Australian works to contemporary classics and the most exciting international shows making their Australian premieres.
Join us in the room to experience what only theatre can do.
https://www.mtc.com.au
Video by Silky Jazz Films with Eva Otsing (Anne-Louise Sarks footage)
There’s no better way to kick off Season 2024 than with this playful look back at a pivotal moment in nearly every young person’s life: the final day of high sc...
There’s no better way to kick off Season 2024 than with this playful look back at a pivotal moment in nearly every young person’s life: the final day of high school. Six teens assemble at the local park to celebrate the great unknown that is their future. Through wild drinking, wilder dancing, regrettable pashes and jaw-dropping confessions, no one will be left unchanged by this night.
Meet the cast and director bringing Australian playwright Matthew Whittet's Seventeen to the stage.
Book your tickets at https://www.mtc.com.au/seventeen
Video by Eva Otsing
There’s no better way to kick off Season 2024 than with this playful look back at a pivotal moment in nearly every young person’s life: the final day of high school. Six teens assemble at the local park to celebrate the great unknown that is their future. Through wild drinking, wilder dancing, regrettable pashes and jaw-dropping confessions, no one will be left unchanged by this night.
Meet the cast and director bringing Australian playwright Matthew Whittet's Seventeen to the stage.
Book your tickets at https://www.mtc.com.au/seventeen
Video by Eva Otsing
Welcome to Season 2024!
Home-grown stories and the most in-demand international plays. Brave perspectives and daring performances. Familiar masterpieces and new favourites you won’t forget. Heartbreaking romance, gut-busting comedy and provocative, insightful drama. And that’s not even the half of it.
Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks has pulled out all the stops for Season 2024 and we’re thrilled to share the 12 unmissable plays taking to our stages next year.
Explore Season 2024 at https://www.mtc.com.au/
Video by SIRAP
Music by Joe Paradise Lui
Check out the trailer for The Almighty Sometimes on stage now at Southbank Theatre.
👭 When 18-year-old Anna stumbles upon stories she wrote as a child she discovers a thrilling but unfamiliar imagination bursting from the pages. Now she's determined to discover who she is without the label that has defined most of her life, but her pursuit pits her against her seemingly well-meaning mother, boyfriend and the therapist she no longer sees as an ally.
Join us as Nadine Garner, Max McKenna, Louisa Mignone and Karl Richmond star in this fiercely honest coming-of-age story exploring the perils of adolescence and growing up with mental illness.
🎟️ The Almighty Sometimes is now playing until 18 May. Book tickets at https://mtc.com.au/the-almighty-sometimes/
Video by Einwick
Season 2025: Your front row seat to international premieres, Tony Award winners, Australian debuts and works that could only have been made right here in Melbourne.
Brought together by Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks, we can't wait to share these 13 incredible plays with you.
Check out more of Season 2025 at https://www.mtc.com.au/
Video by @einwick8876
Music by Joe Paradise Lui
Check out the trailer for English, on stage now at Southbank Theatre.
A small classroom in Iran is the birthplace for a big-hearted comedy. Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, English is a story of falling in love with your own voice.
🎟️ English is now playing until 29 August. Book tickets at
Video by Einwick
Welcome to a season of theatrical storytelling at its best.
From classic comedy The Odd Couple starring Shaun Micallef and Francis Greenslade, or Ladies in Black - the heart-bursting new musical with songs by Tim Finn - through to Pulitzer-Prize winner Disgraced starring Kat Stewart, we invite you to lose yourself, and find something new.
See the full season at http://bit.ly/1NeIiBJ
Music: Force from Within by Adam Salkeld and Neil Pollard
Check out the trailer for A Streetcar Named Desire, on stage now at Arts Centre Melbourne.
Experience the raw intensity of Tennessee Williams's classic masterpiece – one of the most critically acclaimed plays of the twentieth century – reimagined by Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks. Set against the backdrop of a 1940s New Orleans, yet pulsing with contemporary energy, A Streetcar Named Desire's timeless exploration of aggression, desire and deception is testament to theatre’s enduring power to hold up a mirror and ask us what we see.
🎟️ A Streetcar Named Desire is now playing until 17 August. Book tickets at https://www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-tickets/whats-on/season-2024/a-streetcar-named-desire/
Video by SIRAP
A Streetcar Named Desire is presented by special arrangement with the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
Since he was 27, Aaron Pedersen has been his brother Vinnie Pedersen's full-time carer. Vinnie has accompanied Aaron on acting roles all around Australia, including here at Melbourne Theatre Company.
We've loved having Vinnie in the room since day one of rehearsals for Cost of Living, where Aaron stars as Eddie Torres.
Cost of Living is on now at Southbank Theatre until 19 October.
Book your tickets at https://www.mtc.com.au/cost-of-living/
Video by Eva Otsing
As part of Open House Melbourne, head backstage to areas usually unseen by the public in this guided video tour around Southbank Theatre led by MTC’s Theatre Operations Director, Mark Wheeler.
Want to learn more about the theatre? Send us your questions here and we'll answer them throughout the week: https://bit.ly/3hx8ieQ
Explore Season 2023 – a new artistic era for Melbourne Theatre Company that will broaden the conversation like never before.
Hear from Artistic Director & Co-CEO Anne-Louise Sarks as she reveals her inaugural season that celebrates new perspectives – through stories that haven’t been heard before and familiar stories told in new ways.
And meet some of the talented actors that will bring these 12 new worlds to life, from brilliant new Australian works to contemporary classics and the most exciting international shows making their Australian premieres.
Join us in the room to experience what only theatre can do.
https://www.mtc.com.au
Video by Silky Jazz Films with Eva Otsing (Anne-Louise Sarks footage)
There’s no better way to kick off Season 2024 than with this playful look back at a pivotal moment in nearly every young person’s life: the final day of high school. Six teens assemble at the local park to celebrate the great unknown that is their future. Through wild drinking, wilder dancing, regrettable pashes and jaw-dropping confessions, no one will be left unchanged by this night.
Meet the cast and director bringing Australian playwright Matthew Whittet's Seventeen to the stage.
Book your tickets at https://www.mtc.com.au/seventeen
Video by Eva Otsing
The Melbourne Theatre Company (popularly known as MTC) is a theatre company based in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1953 as the Union Theatre Repertory Company, it is the oldest professional theatre company in Australia, and has its own theatre, Southbank Theatre – which houses the 500-seat Sumner and the 150-seat Lawler – located in Melbourne's Arts Precinct in Southbank. Despite being recognised as Victoria's State theatre company, it comes under the auspices of the University of Melbourne. Currently, it offers a Mainstage Season of ten to twelve plays each year, a season of new and emerging works (Neon Festival of Independent Theatre), and an Education Season along with affiliate writers programs. It has a current subscriber base of 19,816 people and plays to a quarter of a million people annually.
History
The Melbourne Theatre Company was founded in 1953 by John Sumner as the Union Theatre Repertory Company, based at the Union Theatre of the University of Melbourne's Student Union building. Sumner's original idea was to present a season of plays over those months when the Union Theatre was not being used by student drama societies. It was Australia's first professional repertory theatre, presenting a new play every two weeks during the season. Later, that became three weekly repertory. The first play, Jean Anouilh's Colombe, opened on 31 August 1953, starring Zoe Caldwell (who was later to have considerable success on Broadway), George Fairfax and Alex Scott.
Janet also spent much of her time working in theatre where she took part in several productions with the MelbourneTheatreCompany and Playbox Theatre Company.
... as an actor, graduating from the NationalTheatre in Melbourne in 1979 ... Over four decades she also worked in numerous theatre productions with the Melbourne Theatre Company and Playbox Theatre Company.
... as an actor, graduating from the NationalTheatre in Melbourne in 1979 ... Over four decades she also worked in numerous theatre productions with the Melbourne Theatre Company and Playbox Theatre Company.
Tributes rolled in at the sad news, with The MelbourneTheatreCompany sharing a moving post to Instagram. 'We are saddened to hear of the passing of Ray Lawler, former Melbourne Theatre Company ...
Dann Barber’s design is enormously helpful, even if the set itself seems very similar to Shaun Gurton’s work on MelbourneTheatreCompany’s 2010Richard III, at least in its functionality.