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Season 2018 has been a big year at Melbourne Theatre Company. We began with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and continued the thrills with a calendar of extraordinary productions including Wild, Gloria, An Ideal Husband, The Architect and Astroman, to name a few.

To see out a stellar year there really could be no better production than this spectacular new staging of Twelfth Night from director Simon Phillips.

A tale of mistaken identities, love triangles and pranks, Twelfth Night is Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy, and is fabulously elaborate in every way. So it’s entirely fitting that Simon, the creative team and cast have built a joyous production that is every bit as extravagant as it deserves. It’s Twelfth Night like never before.

As we send off 2018 in style, we’re also looking towards next year and the exciting theatre up ahead. Work has well and truly begun on the first few shows – for which tickets are selling fast – so don’t forget to get your subscription in, if you haven’t already.

Thank you for being part of Season 2018. We look forward to sharing more wonderful moments at the theatre with you in 2019.

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Melbourne Theatre Company acknowledges the Yalukit Willam Peoples of the Boon Wurrung, the First Peoples of Country on which Southbank Theatre and MTC HQ stand, and we pay our respects to all of Melbourne’s First Peoples, to their ancestors and Elders, and to our shared future.

MTC is a department MTC is assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, MTC is a member of Live of the University its arts funding and advisory body, and by the State Government of Victoria through Performance Australia and the of Melbourne. Creative Victoria. Australian Major Performing Arts Group. MELBOURNE THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS TWELFTH NIGHT BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

12 NOVEMBER 2018 — 5 JANUARY 2019 Southbank Theatre, The Sumner

— About the play — Twelfth Night is a tale of unrequited love – hilarious and heartbreaking. Twins are separated in a shipwreck and forced to fend for themselves in a strange land. The first twin, Viola, falls in love with Orsino, who dotes on OIivia, who falls for Viola but is idolised by Malvolio. Enter Sebastian, who is the spitting image of his twin sister... Where music is the food of love, and nobody is quite what they seem, anything is possible!

— Cast — Composers Kate Miller-Heidke and Keir Nuttall Sebastian/Musician Caleb Alloway Musical Director & Additional Composition A Sea Captain/Musician/Ensemble Ian McDonald Roderick Cairns Voice & Text Coach Leith McPherson Maria Tamsin Carroll Associate Lighting Designer Chris Twyman Malvolio Russell Dykstra Assistant Costume Designer Sophie Woodward Viola Esther Hannaford Choreographer Andrew Hallsworth Antonio/Valentine/Musician Anthony Harkin Fight Choreographer Nigel Poulton Feste Colin Hay Swordplay Consultant Gindi Wauchope Sir Toby Belch Richard Piper System Designer Terry McKibbin Curio/Musician/Ensemble Alec Steedman Stage Manager Whitney McNamara Olivia Christie Whelan Browne Deputy Stage Manager Julia Smith Sir Andrew Aguecheek Frank Woodley Assistant Stage Manager Jess Maguire Orsino Lachlan Woods Rehearsal Assistant Stage Manager Benjamin Cooper — Creative Team — Stage Management Secondment Sarah Strong Director Simon Phillips Rehearsal Photographer Deryk McAlpin Set & Costume Designer Gabriela Tylesova Production Photographer Jeff Busby Lighting Designer Nick Schlieper

For information regarding running time, please see a member of the Front of House team.

Opening Night Keyboard and acoustic electric guitar supplied by Yamaha Music Australia, a proud Season Partner Partner of MTC. Acoustic guitar supplied by Maton Guitars Australia. Cover Photo: Justin Ridler Topsy-turvydom

Christie Whelan Browne and Esther Hannaford ‘Some are born great; some achieve greatness…’ Dr David McInnis, Gerry Higgins Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Melbourne, explores the love, power and performance of identity in Shakespeare’s ultimate Christmas comedy Twelfth Night.

‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’, wrote Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex (1949), distinguishing sex from gender and physical bodies from constructed identities. Three and a half centuries earlier, Shakespeare was fascinated by the disjunction between bodies and social roles when he was writing his comic masterpiece, Twelfth Night.

At the heart of this comedy is a playful exploration of the construction of class, gender, and sexual identity, and the tensions between the external and internal dimensions of each. In the comic world of Twelfth Night festivities, alternative social possibilities are temporarily explored: a powerful woman is head of her household but is ultimately ridiculed in the play; a female twin seeking sanctuary is able Topsy-turvydom to flourish in the role of a male courtier; and an ambitious male steward exceeds his social station by falling in love with a gentlewoman.

Viola is at the centre of the play’s exploration of identity, disguise, and misrecognition. Shipwrecked and cast ashore in a foreign town, she cautiously conceals her Lachlan Woods and Alec Steedman; (below) Director Simon Phillips

Russell Dykstra; (right) Christie Whelan Browne and Tamsin Carroll ‘Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.’ — Malvolio

Caleb Alloway and Anthony Harkin

gender and adopts the disguise of a eunuch to seek employment at Duke Orsino’s court. Her ostensible sexlessness is misconstrued as youthful masculinity however, and instead of acting as the mediator between Orsino and Olivia, she soon finds herself the subject of each of their affections.

Viola is the most self-aware of her performance of identity, explicitly stating ‘I am not that I play’ and ‘I am not what I am’, and apostrophising disguise itself in what Keir Elam notes is the only example of a Shakespearean heroine questioning the morality of her cross-dressing: ‘Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness / Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.’ The pregnant enemy is of course Satan, whose disguise as a snake is what enables him to corrupt Adam and Eve. Playing a role sits heavily with Viola. Viola’s love is necessarily internalised, of course: whilst Orsino actively proclaims The assumptions underpinning the his love, the disguised Viola must remain gendering of identity are explored passive and express her emotions with throughout the play. Orsino portrays his subtlety (‘Say that some lady, as perhaps love as infinite, and ‘hungry as the sea’; he there is, / Hath for your love as great a pang claims that no comparison can be made of heart / As you have for Olivia…’). between ‘that love a woman can bear’ him and that which he bears for Olivia. Women, Curiously, as Viola makes her observations in his opinion, are not capable of such vast, about the external nature of men’s love insatiable, romantic love – their love is (‘We men may say more, swear more…’), tepid, brief. Men’s love is depicted here as she is externally male and internally female an external, almost superficial emotion, – a concept which perhaps hints at the whereas women’s love is internal in nature. artificiality of assigning behaviours on ‘If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.’ — Orsino Frank Woodley, Richard Piper, Caleb Alloway and Colin Hay Colin Hay, Alec Steedman, Caleb Alloway, Russell Dykstra, Roderick Cairns, Musical Director Ian McDonald and Anthony Harkin; (opposite, clockwise from top left) Esther Hannaford and Lachlan Woods, Tamsin Carroll and Frank Woodley; Richard Piper and Frank Woodley; Russell Dykstra the basis of gender alone, since each sex is (because temporary) exploration of capable of each behaviour. alternative social roles. In this view, the comic inversion of roles ultimately reaffirms Viola’s successful wooing of Olivia proves not conservative values, and the transgressive only that a gentleman can be made instead behaviours are contained by the acts of of being born, but that a woman is capable identity disclosure and marriage at the of being a gentleman. Social positions are play’s end. But the denouement of the exposed as being independent of birth play is actually quite perplexing. status, and similarly, the perceived differences between the sexes are also only Marriage is the appropriate conclusion for an artificial construction. Here, a female was comedies because it ostensibly guarantees the most successful gentleman. Of course, that society will reproduce itself and all women on the early modern stage were continue on in the way it has always done. artificial constructions of femininity; it was It points to the next generation and the a transvestite stage that excluded women circularity of time. On the level of genre, the even though it represented them. play formally contains its subversions by having Orsino marry Viola and Olivia marry It has often been remarked that the Twelfth Sebastian, even though Orsino is really Night topsy-turvydom allows a safe attracted to Viola’s ‘male youth’ avatar, Cesario, and Olivia barely has time to be curiously allows Olivia’s uncle (Toby) to disappointed that Cesario is a girl named marry her serving-woman (Maria) with Viola before an acceptable male twin barely a pause to consider the class appears whom she can marry without impropriety: for their pains in orchestrating having actually met. the horrendous trick on Malvolio, they are inappropriately rewarded with the Equally troubling is Malvolio’s justifiably traditional comic ending of marriage. bitter departure, swearing ‘I’ll be revenged on the whole pack of you!’ This is his final Perhaps Shakespeare’s subtitle deserves line in the play, and whilst it looks to the greater prominence: Twelfth Night, or What future, it doesn’t do so in the manner of You Will. Make of the play what you will; do comic resolution. Why is it appropriate as you see fit. The play operates under the for him to be treated this way? Other sign of desire (‘will’) in all its forms: sexual characters have transgressed their birth desire, desire for social elevation, desire to identities, but Malvolio’s upwardly-mobile deceive and to be deceived. But be careful desires are not tolerated by the play; he is what you wish for – as Feste warns us, expelled from its carnivalesque world. Even ‘Nothing that is so, is so’. n though Malvolio’s desired union with the countess Olivia is scorned, the play Lachlan Woods, Esther Hannaford, Christie Whelan Browne and Caleb Alloway

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SIR TOBY BELCH MARIA FESTE

Richard Piper Tamsin Carroll Colin Hay Born Yesterday, The Secret River fresh from West End’s Men at Work Everybody’s Talking About Jamie

SIR ANDREW AGUECHEEK OLIVIA MALVOLIO

Frank Woodley Christie Whelan Browne Russell Dykstra Lano & Woodley An Ideal Husband, Rake, The Lion King the Musical Muriel’s Wedding the Musical

ORSINO VIOLA (AS CESARIO) SEA CAPTAIN

Lachlan Woods Esther Hannaford Roderick Cairns Macbeth, Double Indemnity Beautiful: The Carole King Musical Romeo & Juliet

CURIO SEBASTIAN ANTONIO

Alec Steedman Caleb Alloway Anthony Harkin Garfield the Musical Angels in America, Kinky Boots the Musical, Home and Away Strictly Ballroom Behind the seams of Twelfth Night’s costumes

SKETCHES BY GABRIELA TYLESOVA Eight costume makers have worked on creating over 25 principal costumes designed by Gabriela Tylesova for Twelfth Night. Additional makers have worked on period handmade boots, shoes, capes, sword sheaths and other accessories. Materials have been sourced from the USA, England, Germany, Japan and multiple parts of Australia. Each costume has required an average of 80 hours work, depending on their varying degrees of complexity. Almost every costume and accessory has been made by hand for this production of Twelfth Night, with only a few boots and shoes being recycled from past Shakespeare productions at MTC. There’s nothing like the gift of live theatre this Festive Season GIVE LOVE, LAUGHS, DRAMA.

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CALEB ALLOWAY RODERICK CAIRNS TAMSIN CARROLL Sebastian / Musician A Sea Captain / Musician / Maria Ensemble

Caleb Alloway makes his debut An acting graduate of the Tamsin Carroll first appeared for with Melbourne Theatre Western Australian Academy Melbourne Theatre Company at Company in Twelfth Night. of Performing Arts, Roderick the age of 19 playing Little Red He has previously worked on Cairns’s theatre appearances Riding Hood in the acclaimed various stage shows including include Yours the Face for Quiet Sondheim musical Into The Angels in America Part 1 & Part 2 Little Fox; The Laramie Project: Woods. Her Australian theatre (FortyFive Downstairs); Crimes of Ten Years Later for Red Stitch credits went on to include The Heart and Low Level Panic Actors’ Theatre; Cyrano de Harbour and The Republic of (Old Fitz Theatre); HISTORY BOYS Bergerac, Zastrozzi and The Myopia for Sydney Theatre (Sydney Opera House); Paris Simple Truth for Black Swan State Company and Measure for Letter (Darlinghurst Theatre); Theatre Company; Macbeth and Measure for Bell Shakespeare. and Canary (New Theatre). Caleb Romeo and Juliet for Complete In the UK, Tamsin’s theatre has also appeared in feature Works Theatre Company; Covert credits include Ragtime and films Science Fiction V1 (Director for Perth Theatre Company; A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Shane Abbess); the comedy Twelfth Night for Deckchair Regents Park; The Magistrate Dick’s Clinic (Director – Patrick Theatre Company; Much Ado for The National Theatre; Casa Flynn); and Shock Room (Director About Nothing for The Australian Valentina, Southwark Playhouse; Kathryn Millard). Other screen Shakespeare Company, and Long Strictly Ballroom West Yorkshire credits include reoccurring guest Day’s Journey into Night for The Playhouse and Toronto Seasons roles on Home and Away Hole in the Wall Theatre for Global Creatures, Oliver! (7 Network); Janet King (ABC TV) Company. Film and television Cameron Mackintosh Theatre and Underbelly Razor (9 Network). appearances include The Very Royal Drury Lane, and most Additionally he has hosted two Excellent Mr Dundee (Clock recently, Everybody’s Talking seasons of Imagination Train Sounds Productions); Australia About Jamie original cast, on Gem for Ambience on Trial (ABC TV); Molly, Winners Sheffield Crucible Theatre and Entertainment. and Losers, Time Trackers, City in London at Apollo Shaftesbury Homicide (7 Network) and Ave. Tamsin’s TV and film credits The Ship (BBC). include Heartbreak High, All Saints, Eastenders, Goddess and Holy Smoke directed by Jane Campion. Tamsin has won several awards including a Helpmann for Best Actress in a musical Oliver (2003) and another for Best Actress in a musical Dusty (2006). Cast

RUSSELL DYKSTRA ESTHER HANNAFORD ANTHONY HARKIN Malvolio Viola Antonio / Valentine / Musician

For Melbourne Theatre Company, Esther Hannaford most recently Anthony Harkin’s extensive Russell Dykstra starred in Born played Carole King in Beautiful: theatre credits include Yesterday. Some other theatre The Carole King Musical (Michael Neighbourhood Watch at credits include God Of Carnage, Cassel Group); Mr Burns Melbourne Theatre Company. He Wonderful World Of Dissocia, (Belvoir); The Last Man Standing was most recently seen on stage The Unlikely Prospect Of (Melbourne Theatre Company) in The View Upstairs (Hayes Happiness (STC); Toy Symphony Little Shop of Horrors (Tinderbox Theatre) and on the national tour and Stuff Happens (Company B), Productions); Nice Work If You of Kinky Boots (Michael Cassel). earning him a Helpmann Award Can Get It (The Production Other theatre credits include for Best Supporting Actor. Russell Company); Three Mikado’s Strictly Ballroom (Strictly made his feature film debut in (Melbourne Comedy Festival); Business); The Sound Of Music the critically acclaimed Soft Fruit King Kong (Global Creatures); (Gordon Frost); Next to Normal (AFI Award for Best Actor in a Miracle City (The Hayes); Virgins (Hayes Theatre); Miracle City Leading Role. He appeared in (Malthouse); Hairspray (Dainty/ (Luckiest Productions); Jersey Romulus My Father (AFI Award Roadshow); Hair, Mame and Boys, Rock of Ages (New nomination for Best Supporting The Boyfriend (The Production Theatricals); Avenue Q (Arts Actor). Some other films include Company); Once We Lived Here Asia Pacific); Shane Warne the Oranges And Sunshine, Clubland, (45 Downstairs). Selected awards Musical (Token Events); The Wind Lantana, Garage Days, Ned Kelly include; Helpmann Award for in the Willows (Australian and Hey Hey It’s Esther Beautiful: The Carole King Shakespeare Company); Miss Blueburger. He will next be seen Musical; Sydney Theatre Critic Saigon (Miss Saigon Australia); in the anticipated film Slam. Award for Little Shop of Horrors; The Last Five Years (Echelon Russell appeared in the Helpmann Award, Green Room Productions); The Internationalist successful ABC television series Award for Hairspray; Green (The Practical Theatre Company); Rake (Series 1-4) (AACTA Award Room Award for King Kong; Cabaret (IMG and Japan & Korea nomination for Best Supporting Green Room Award Once We Network Tours) and A Month in Actor in a Television Drama). Lived Here. the Country (Sydney Theatre Some other television credits Company). On screen Anthony include Spirited, Wild Boys, appeared in The Alice, All Saints Blackjack, My Place and and in the feature films The Bet Scorched. and Right Here Right Now. Anthony also co-wrote and directed Dedications, which toured nationally to critical acclaim. Cast

COLIN HAY RICHARD PIPER ALEC STEEDMAN Feste Sir Toby Belch Curio / Musician / Ensemble

Twelfth Night is Colin Hay’s Richard Piper’s MTC credits include Alec Steedman is a Melbourne debut appearance for Melbourne Born Yesterday, Double Indemnity, based actor musician with a Theatre Company. Best known Ghosts, Music, Queen Lear, The BFA in Music Theatre from the as lead singer, guitarist and Gift, Drowsy Chaperone, Rockabye, Victorian College of the Arts. principle songwriter of Grammy Entertaining Mr Sloane, The Give Since graduating in 2017, Alec has award winning, multi-platinum and Take, Dumb Show, The enjoyed performing in Garfield selling band Men At Work, Colin’s Daylight Atheist, Coup d’Etat, the Musical as Jon Arbuckle diverse career has seen him write Betrayal, Man the Balloon, Life (Stage Art Australia); Twelfth and produce 13 solo albums, and After George, Measure for Measure, Night (Melbourne Shakespeare tour the globe in support of The Comedy of Errors; Malthouse Company); On Broadway them. A prolific songwriter, Theatre: The Black Rider, ‘Tis Pity (Flourish Productions); and was Colin’s songs have appeared in She’s a Whore. Other theatre involved in the creation and such films as, Garden State, credits include: Competitive performance of a new cabaret, Morning Glory, Words and Tenderness, Picasso at the Lapin Death of a Demi Diva for the Pictures, and the TV shows Agile, A Happy and Holy Occasion cabaret fringe festival. As well Modern Family and Scrubs. He (Playbox); The Secret River, Gross as his training in musical theatre, has appeared in the US on The und Klein, Great Expectations, Alec is a classically trained Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, Moby Dick (Sydney Theatre musician and holds his AMEB Jimmy Kimmel, Live! ABC’s Company); The Wild Duck AmusA diploma in the violin. Greatest Hits and most recently (Barbican Centre / Belvoir); Alec is thrilled to be making his on the ABC TV’s NYE concert at A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The professional theatre debut with the Opera House and Julia War of the Roses, Henry V, Henry IV Melbourne Theatre Company in Zemiro’s Home Delivery. Through (Bell Shakespeare); Moby Dick, Twelfth Night. all this, Colin continues to gather Marat Sade, The Comedy of Errors, a whole new generation of fans. Restoration, A Midsummer Night’s As an actor Colin has performed Dream and What the Butler Saw in films, such as The Craic, Così, (STCSA). Musical theatre credits Raw Silk and Georgia. On include Oklahoma!, King Kong, Billy television he could be seen in Elliot, The New Rocky Horror Show. Jack Irish: Bad Debts, Lowdown, TV credits include Wentworth, Scrubs and The Larry Sanders Tangle, Underbelly, City Homicide, Show. On stage he appeared in Satisfaction, Blue Heelers, the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust Crashburn, Stingers, Good Guys, production of Ned Kelly. Most Bad Guys, Correlli, Snowy River, recently, Colin has just finished a Wedlocked, Blue Heelers, northern summer tour of Europe Neighbours, Mission Impossible. and the US, as part of Ringo Film credits includes: Locusts, Starr’s All Starr Band. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Awards: Green Room The Daylight Atheist 2004.

Cast

CHRISTIE WHELAN FRANK WOODLEY LACHLAN WOODS BROWNE Sir Andrew Aguecheek Orsino Olivia

Christie Whelan Browne has Since emerging from the Perrier Lachlan Woods graduated from worked at Melbourne Theatre Award-winning duo Lano & the Victorian College of the Arts Company extensively over her Woodley in 2006, Frank Woodley in 2009. He is a familiar face career. Theatre credits include has toured around Australia and to MTC audiences, having An Ideal Husband, Born Yesterday, every major comedy festival. His performed in the acclaimed The Odd Couple, The Importance special brand of nonsense-genius Richard lll, Hamlet, Macbeth and of Being Earnest, The Drowsy has seen him create numerous the world stage premieres of Chaperone (MTC). Other recent stage shows – Possessed, Inside, Double Indemnity and North theatre credits include Muriel’s and Extra Ordinary, amongst by Northwest. Other theatre Wedding The Musical (Sydney others – as well as his own ABC includes: Heaven (LaMama); Theatre Company); Vigil (Arts series, Woodley. He has guested Pale Blue Dot (Malthouse Centre Melbourne); The Beast on a wide variety of TV favourites Theatre/OpticNerve); Macbeth (The Ambassador Theatre Group); from Spicks & Specks to Have You (OpticNerve); Polygraph (Theatre Jerry’s Girls (The Production Been Paying Attention? Frank has Works/OpticNerve); The Company); Nice Work if You Can also extensively toured his Australian Playwriting Festival Get It (The Production Company); children’s show Noodlenut and and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Britney Spears: The Cabaret appeared in numerous stage Now Change (UHT). Lachlan’s (Luckiest Productions); Singing shows including Spamalot film work includes the lead in in the Rain (The Production (Harvest Rain/QPAC); The David Parker’s The Menkoff Company) and Shane Warne Composer is Dead! (Sydney Youth Method (White Hot), James The Musical (Adelaide Cabaret Orchestra; Adelaide Cabaret Cameron’s Deep Sea Challenge Festival). Television credits include Festival); Complete Works of 3D (NatGeo), That’s Not Me Get Krack!n, The Wrong Girl, William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Mocassin) and the shorts Mustangs FC, True Story with (QPAC); and Optimism A Terrible Beauty (Storey Kids/ Hamish & Andy, House Husbands, (Malthouse Theatre), for which Screen Australia) and Intrusion Paper Giants: Magazine Wars, he won the coveted Herald Angel (Find & Replace). His television Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Award at the Edinburgh Fringe. work includes The Doctor Blake Peter Allen – Not The Boy Next After twelve years apart, Mysteries (ABC); Molly Door, Offspring and Wonderland. Lano & Woodley presented their (Mushroom Entertainment); Recent Film credits include I Love brand-new show FLY in 2018. Better Man (SBS); Winners You Too, Spin Out and That’s Not They won the People’s Choice and Losers (Seven Network); My Dog. Christie has been award at the Melbourne Neighbours (Network Ten) and nominated and won several International Comedy Festival Underbelly Files: The Man Who awards including: Helpmann and undertook a national tour Got Away (Screentime). Award, Green Room, Sydney which culminated in huge encore Theatre Award and AACTA awards. performances at Hamer Hall. This is Frank’s Melbourne Theatre Company debut. Creative Team

SIMON PHILLIPS GABRIELA TYLESOVA NICK SCHLIEPER Director Costume & Set Designer Lighting Designer

Simon Phillips began his career in Gabriela Tylesova is an award- Winner of six Green Room New Zealand before emigrating winning, internationally acclaimed Awards, five Sydney Critics’ to Australia in 1984. He was designer. Gabriela’s design Awards and five Helpmann appointed Artistic Director of work includes: The Pillowman, Awards, Nick Schlieper designs State Theatre Company of South Tomfoolery, Urinetown, Cyrano de for all the major Australian Australia from 1990-93 and Bergerac, The Visit and Blithe Spirit performing arts companies and Artistic Director of Melbourne (Melbourne Theatre Company); works regularly internationally. Theatre Company from 2000–11, Il Turco in Italia, Cosi Fan Tutte, Work for MTC includes Macbeth, where he oversaw the design and Baroque Masterworks, Salome, Hamlet, Richard III, Poor Boy, construction of the company’s Sweeney Todd, The Rabbits and Ninety, The Visit and set and new headquarters and the L’elisir d’amore (Opera Australia); lighting for Death and The Southbank Theatre. His directing Muriel’s Wedding the Musical, Maiden and North By Northwest. credits range from contemporary A Flea In Her Ear, Rosencrazntz His designs for STC, include and Shakespearean classics, to And Guildenstern Are Dead, This Chimerica, The Present musicals, to opera. He has Little Piggy, Macbeth, Valpone, (in Sydney and on Broadway) directed works by most of the Attempts On Her Life and Twelfth Harp in the South, Three Sisters, great contemporary writers, as Night (Sydney Theatre Company); King Lear, Waiting for Godot, Big well as the premieres of many Sleeping Beauty and Schéhérazade and Little (in Sydney, London, works by leading Australian (The Australian Ballet); Boomerang Paris and Vienna), War of the playwrights. Simon’s musical and Of Earth And Sky (Bangarra Roses, and set and lighting for credits include internationally Dance Theatre); Love Never Dies Endgame, Face to Face, and successful productions of (Really Useful Group in Australia, Baal. He designed set and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Japan, Germany, US); First Wives lighting for Malthouse, Pompeii and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Club the Musical (USA). Gabriela LA, and Belvoir Street, Royal Never Dies, MTC productions also designed the sets and David’s City. He lit Priscilla Queen of Company, The Twenty-Fifth costume for the opening and of the Desert in Australia, on Annual Putnam County Spelling closing ceremonies of the 2006 Broadway and in London, and Bee, Urinetown and The Drowsy Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. She Love Never Dies in Sydney, Chaperone, and Ladies in Black, collaborated with David McAllister Melbourne, Hamburg and Tokyo. the award-winning new on a picture book of The Sleeping His work in opera includes Turk Australian musical which he Beauty (2017). Her awards include: in Italy, Il Trovatore, L’elisir created with Tim Finn and Six Helpmann Awards; Five Green d’amore, and Falstafffor Opera Carolyn Burns. His acclaimed Room Awards; Three Australian Australia; Lear, for Salzburg new production of Muriel’s Production Design Guild Awards Festival and Midsummer Nights Wedding, the Musical will tour and Three Sydney Theatre Awards. Dream and Billy Budd for Australia in 2018. He has received Gabriela is currently working on Hamburg State Opera. seven Green Room Awards and Swan Lake for National Ballet six Helpmann Awards. of Canada. Creative Team

KATE MILLER-HEIDKE KEIR NUTTALL IAN McDONALD Composer Composer Musical Director & Additional Composition

Kate Miller-Heidke is an Keir Nuttall is a guitarist, Ian McDonald has worked as award-winning singer/songwriter songwriter, producer and Musical Director, Composer, who lives between the worlds of collaborator with Kate Miller- Sound Designer, and Music Editor opera/music theatre and Heidke. Keir co-wrote the music over many seasons on many MTC contemporary pop. With her and lyrics to Muriel’s Wedding: productions, most recently on collaborator Keir Nuttall, she The Musical, which won a 2018 Macbeth, North by Northwest, wrote the music and lyrics to Helpmann Award for Best Pennsylvania Avenue, The Gift, Muriel’s Wedding: The Musical, Musical Score. He co-produced Apologia, Songs for Nobodies, which won a 2018 Helpmann and co-wrote her albums All About My Mother, Richard III, Award for Best Musical Score. ‘Nightflight’ and ‘Curiouser’, Realism, Poor Boy, The Hypocrite, Trained as a classical singer at which surpassed double- Ninety, Scarlett O’Hara at the the Queensland Conservatorium, platinum sales and spawned Crimson Parrot, Rock ’n’ Roll, Kate has appeared at the 3 platinum hits. Their song The Glass Soldier, The Pillowman, Metropolitan Opera in New York ‘Caught in the Crowd’ was the The History Boys, Festen, The in John Adams’ The Death of first Australian song to win 25th Annual Putnam County Klinghoffer, and has performed the prestigious International Spelling Bee, Urinetown, several roles for the English Songwriting Competition. Company, Piaf, High Society, National Opera. Her debut opera Keir also performs as musical Cyrano de Bergerac, and Things as a composer, The Rabbits comedian Franky Walnut. His We Do for Love. He was Musical (based on the book by Shaun debut album, The Franky Walnut Director on The Threepenny Tan and John Marsden), was Reflective Drink Coaster, received Opera (STC); Cabaret, Restoration, commissioned by Opera Australia rave reviews and was nominated Marat/Sade, and The Emerald and sold out seasons in Perth, for an ARIA Award for Best Room (STSA); Man of La Mancha Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Comedy Release. As well as (the Arts Centre); and Villain of It won 4 Helpmann Awards producing several of Kate’s Flowers and Nathanial Storm including Best Score and Best albums, Keir has produced and (NIDA Company). He was New Australian Work. Kate has composed the electronic music Composer for A Delicate Balance released four studio albums in project Fatty Gets A Stylist, for STC; Amy’s View for QTC; Australia. O Vertigo! debuted at whose song ‘Are You Ready?’ has Tear from a Glass Eye for #4 on the ARIA album charts, been used in several high-profile Playbox; ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore Nightflight at #2, and Curiouser, commercial campaigns around and A Midsummer Night’s Dream which reached double platinum the world. He has written several for STCSA; and Shimada sales in Australia and spawned short films, including The (Broadway, New York). the multi-platinum hits ‘Last Birthday Circle, which screened Day On Earth’ and ‘Caught in at 36 film festivals worldwide, the Crowd’. winning 6 awards and was considered for a BAFTA.

Creative Team

LEITH McPHERSON SOPHIE WOODWARD Voice & Text Coach Assistant Costume Designer

Leith has previously worked on Sophie is MTC’s Costume MTC’s productions of A Doll’s Co-ordinator. Her MTC debut as House: Part Two, An Ideal Costume Designer was on Hungry Husband, Macbeth, Melbourne Ghosts for Season 2018 followed Talam (MTC Education), Born by Costume Design Assistant for Yesterday, Jasper Jones, Skylight, An Ideal Husband. She graduated Double Indemnity, Peddling (MTC with a Bachelor of Production Education), North by Northwest, (Design) from VCA in 2010 Jumpy, I’ll Eat You Last, Private winning the Beleura John Tallis Lives, Other Desert Cities, Hamlet, Design Award in her final year. Richard III, All About My Mother, Since then she has designed Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Boston Rules for Living, You got Older, Marriage, Madagascar, The Uncle Vanya, The Honey Bees, Swimming Club, The Drowsy The Village Bike, Wet House, Love Chaperone, August: Osage Love Love, 4,000 Miles and Day County, Explorations: A Streetcar One, A Hotel, Evening (Red Stitch Named Desire (MTC Education), Actors’ Theatre); The One Rockabye, Songs for Nobodies, (PoppySeed Festival/FortyFive Ninety, and The Dame on the Ten Downstairs); The Pyjama Girl Dollar Note. Other recent stage and Letters from the Border work includes Noises Off (Hothouse Theatre); A Long Day’s (Queensland Theatre/ MTC), Dying, Conspiracy, Patient 12 Matilda: The Musical (Melbourne) and The Savages of Wirramai (Royal Shakespeare Company), (LaMama); Between the Clouds Fiddler on the Roof (TML (ATYP/HotHouse Theatre); Enterprises), Little Shop of Horrors Extinction (Red Stitch/GPAC/ (Luckiest Enterprises), Anything Canberra Theatre Centre); Love Goes (Opera Australia/ Gordon Song (Melbourne Fringe); and Frost Productions), Once: The Glorious, Educating Rita, Shirley Musical (GFP). Her screen work Valentine, Always Patsy Cline and includes Your Call is Important To All My Love (HiT Productions). Us, Ghost in the Shell, The Hobbit Sophie also works as a stylist, trilogy, Childhood’s End, Gods of styling the images for MTC’s Egypt, The Eye of the Storm, and Subscription Season brochures The Lovers. Leith is voice and (2016–18), with one of her music dialect coach for Harry Potter videos being awarded the and the Cursed Child (Australia) J award Australian Music Video and is Head of Voice and of the Year in 2015. Movement for the Theatre Department at the VCA. featuring WYNTON MARSALIS LANG LANG • BRAHMS’ REQUIEM DEBORAH CHEETHAM’S EUMERALLA MAHLER 10 • HANSEL AND GRETEL All tickets now on sale

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BASED ON THE SCREENPLAY BY MARC NORMAN & TOM STOPPARD ADAPTED FOR THE STAGE BY LEE HALL MUSIC BY PADDY CUNNEEN

Simon Phillips returns in 2019 to direct another evening of Shakespearean enchantment with Shakespeare in Love – the hit West End stage adaptation. Shakespeare in Love won seven Oscars in 1998. Now, Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman’s Academy Award-winning script has been transformed by Lee Hall (Billy Elliot) into a side-splitting stage comedy with a stirring love story at its heart. Save with a subscription package of three or more plays at mtc.com.au/2019 Shakespeare in Love plays from 15 July to 14 August. Southbank Theatre, The Sumner.

THE LADY IN THE VAN ARBUS & WEST by Alan Bennett by Stephen Sewell Miriam Margolyes stars as Alan Bennett’s Inspired by the true story of Mae West’s eccentric and immovable tenant in this revealing meeting with legendary bitter-sweet British comedy. photographer Diane Arbus.

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