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With a near-sold-out season months before the first preview, Photograph 51 is one of our most in-demand productions of Season 2019, and it’s not hard to see why. Directed by , featuring a cast of extraordinary talent and backed by a brilliant creative team, this fascinating play has all the ingredients for perfect alchemy.

Anna Ziegler’s Photograph 51 takes us back to 1950s London, where the discovery of the DNA double helix structure would unlock the ‘secret of life’, and Rosalind Franklin’s contribution would be overlooked for decades. This delicate play puts her back in the picture and shines a light on the challenges she faced as a woman in a male-dominated field and the price she paid.

Beyond the story, however, Photograph 51 reminds us of the shared intentions of art and science. Both seek to improve our understanding of the world around us, to make sense of life, test ideas and see things from another perspective. The results of these discoveries have the possibility to permanently alter our understanding of the world while continuing to feed our curiosity and pursuit of knowledge.

At MTC we are proud to present stories like this that reframe what we know about moments in time and the experiences of others.

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1 NOVEMBER — 14 DECEMBER 2019 Arts Centre Melbourne, Fairfax Studio

— About the Play — Rosalind Franklin was one of the great scientists of the 20th Century. In 1952 she used X-ray diffraction photography to examine the intricate structure of DNA, but her trail-blazing work was never recognised. Threatened by her brilliance, Franklin’s rivals scandalously stole her research and were awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering the double helix. Photograph 51 relives the chase to find ‘the secret of life’ amidst all the inherent ambition, sexism and isolation of the 1950s, while shining a spotlight on an unsung hero.

— Cast — — Creative Team — Ray Gosling Gig Clarke Director Pamela Rabe James Watson Nicholas Denton Set & Lighting Designer Nick Schlieper Rosalind Franklin Costume Designer Esther Marie Hayes Maurice Wilkins Paul Goddard Composer & Sound Designer Mary Finsterer Don Caspar Yalin Ozucelik Voice & Dialect Coach Anna McCrossin-Owen Francis Crick Dan Spielman Stage Manager Christine Bennett Assistant Stage Manager Meg Richardson Directorial Secondment Suzannah Kennett Lister VCA Stage Management Intern Benjamin Cronin Rehearsal Photographer Deryk McAlpin Production Photographer Pia Johnson

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This play is the winner of the 2008 STAGE International Script Competition and was developed in part, through the University of California, Santa Barbara’s STAGE Project by the Professional Artists Lab (Nancy Kawalek, Director) and the California NanoSystems Institute. Media Partner Photograph 51 was developed by The Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science and Technology Project and received its New York premiere at the Ensemble Studio Theatre on October 27, 2010. Originally commissioned and produced by Active Cultures, the Vernacular Theatre of Maryland. Opening Night on Sunday, February 10, 2008. Use of Photograph 51: King’s College London Archives Nadine Garner and Paul Goddard; (opposite) Photograph 51: King's College London Archives In conversation with playwright Anna Ziegler

Anna Ziegler discusses the inspiration behind Photograph 51, her creative process and channelling her inner ‘Britishness’.

What was it about Rosalind Franklin that For me, it is absolutely. And I think I was also so fascinated you? Obviously, she has been really taken by the metaphor of the double- allowed to drop out of history unfairly. helix itself, and the way it reflects so much of Was that the main thing, or was it what what happened at this moment. Because the she discovered? double helix is itself a pairing. It’s a pairing that works very well and creates life, and What I immediately loved about her was here we have this story of these two pairs: just how unique and interesting and one that worked well together – Watson and complicated a character she was. And Crick – and one that did not. And it’s of inherently tragic. I think the fact that she course the successful pair that ends up died so young and had so much potential – discovering life in a very neat, beautiful kind she was really considered by almost of way. And the failure of the other pairing is everyone to be just a brilliant scientist (man I think also sort of reflective of and I don’t or woman) and it’s that potential cut short understand the science well enough to that’s still heart-breaking – what she would explain it but – the DNA as two strands that have gone on to do and discover. But I also found the circumstances she was in, and the way those perhaps created or triggered the personality that then clashed so fiercely with Maurice Wilkins at this particular moment in history, fascinating.

Science historian Horace Judson once wrote, ‘as scientists understand very well, personality has always been an inseparable part of their styles of inquiry and a potent, if unacknowledged, factor in their results,’ and that’s the nub of the play really, isn’t it? It’s about how personality, as well as brains, is responsible for what actually happens and comes out of research. (From top) Paul Goddard and Yalin Ozucelik; Nadine Garner, Dan Spielman, Gig Clarke and Paul Goddard; Yalin Ozucelik, Nicholas Denton and Gig Clarke; (opposite) Nicholas Denton and Dan Spielman.

work together, but never actually touch. So there is this essential part of life that is about tenuous collaboration and how easily things can go wrong.

You don’t have a science background, and you’ve got to get over to an audience – also most of whom won’t have a science background – what all the fuss was about. You’ve used ideas of beauty and pattern and so on, which we do understand. But it’s always so difficult putting science on stage. Was that the biggest problem?

I suppose when I started writing it, I just thought ‘well I don’t understand a lot of these concepts, so whatever I put on stage has to be simple enough that I can understand it!’ So it seemed to me if I was the average audience member I would just do my best to represent something I could basically understand. That being said, I think the play goes by really quickly. It’s a fast-paced play and I think a lot of people – and I would too – miss some of the science. Maybe it’s sacrilegious to say it, but I don’t think it matters all that much. It’s not about the science. As long as the science is there and creating an authentic backdrop essentially, then I feel like I’ve done my job. But it’s certainly been daunting and gratifying to have the response of real scientists, most of whom have said that the science is accurate and comes across pretty authentically. So I’ve been happy about that, I have to admit! ‘There is this essential part of life that is about tenuous collaboration and how easily things can go wrong.‘ It’s set in London in 1951–53, so was think I absorbed some British sensibility! that something you had to think hard And I didn’t worry so much about it being in about? Getting the language and the the 50s. As the play has evolved, there have behaviour right? been certain lines that I’ve shifted a little bit if someone would say ‘oh that feels a little I’ve always found it really fun to write too modern’, but on the whole I was just outside of my own experience and my own trying to capture a Britishness that felt voice. So it appealed to that side of me— natural and not imposed. I don’t really and it appealed in particular to my think people have changed all that much Anglophilic side. I had done a year of since then. graduate school in England after University in the States – at University of East Anglia in Norwich. And then I had a British boyfriend Read about the life and legacy for a number of years, so I spent a lot of of Rosalind Franklin at time in England when I was in my twenties, mtc.com.au/backstage shortly before writing this play. So I like to

Director Pamela Rabe with Gig Clarke, Nadine Garner, Paul Goddard and Yalin Ozucelik

This is an extract of an audio interview between Anna Ziegler and critic Heather Neill recorded on 17 September 2015 and published online at theatrevoice.com, the leading audio resource for British theatre. Cast & Creative Team

GIG CLARKE NICHOLAS DENTON NADINE GARNER Ray Gosling James Watson Rosalind Franklin Gig Clarke previously appeared for Melbourne born actor Nicholas Nadine Garner previously Melbourne Theatre Company in Denton was previously seen at performed on stage at Melbourne Tony McNamara’s comedy The Melbourne Theatre Company in Theatre Company in Di and Viv Grenade. Photograph 51 not only Astroman, Wild and as Charlie and Rose, The Distance, The Weir, marks Gig’s return to MTC, but also Bucktin in the critically acclaimed Private Lives, Three Sisters, a return to theatre after working production of Jasper Jones at both The Balcony, Summer of the mainly on screen for several years. Queensland Theatre and Melbourne Seventeenth Doll, Così and Previous theatre credits include Theatre Company. Nicholas’s other The Cherry Orchard. Other theatre Marriage Blanc ( Theatre theatre credits include Pomona credits include Company), The Grenade (Sydney (Red Stitch), One Flew Over the (Watch This), Zebra! and Life After Theatre Company), The Haunting Cuckoo’s Nest (Monster Media), George (), (Prince Moo), Rope (Tamarama Smoking Joe, Cowboy Mouth Birds Eye View (Old Fitz Theatre), Rock Surfers), The Ugly One (Griffin (Old 505), Love Song, The Glass Miss Julie (Perth Theatre Company), Independent), Woyzeck (B-Sharp Menagerie (Melbourne Fringe), The Taming of the Shrew (EHJ Belvoir), and Don’t Look Back The Sugar Syndrome (The Kings Productions) and Cabaret (IMG (dreamthinkspeak). Screen credits Collective), Out of Gas On Lovers Entertainment). Recent television include Rake, The Code, Spirited, Leap (Gasworks Arts Park) and credits include , Mary: The Making of a Princess, Monologue for a Murderer (La Part Time Private Eyes, Mr Black, Gallipoli – The Power of Ten, Home Mama). In television, Nicholas has The Blake Mysteries: Ghost Stories, and Away, , Tricky appeared in Glitch Season 1 and 2 It’s a Date, and The Doctor Blake Business, Australia: The Story of (Matchbox Pictures/Netflix), Utopia Mysteries. Film credits include Us, and Rescue: Special Ops. Season 4 (ABC) and will next be Celeste, The Wedding Party, Razzle Gig is a graduate of WAAPA. seen in My Life is Murder (CJZ/ Dazzle, The Book of Revelation, Channel 10). His performances on Metal Skin and Mull. Nadine film include Holding the Man, Spirit received a Helpmann Award of the Game, Kath and Kimderella and Green Room Award for her and recent horror film The Unlit. performance in Cabaret and a New Nicholas was also the recipient of York City International Film Festival the Best Actor Award (Rabbit) at Award for The Wedding Party. the St Kilda Film Festival. Businesses have their ups and downs. That’s why we have flexible cash flow solutions. Whether you need access to working capital or facilities to bridge the gaps, we will help you find the right cash flow solution to keep your business moving. Business Overdraft | Business Credit Cards | Vehicle and Equipment Finance

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PAUL GODDARD YALIN OZUCELIK DAN SPIELMAN Maurice Wilkins Don Caspar Francis Crick Paul Goddard’s theatre credits Yalin is thrilled to be returning to Dan Spielman has previously include Away (Playbox), Angels in Melbourne Theatre Company, after appeared in Macbeth and America, The Heretic, Betrayal, first performing in Frost/Nixon. The Seagull for Melbourne Theatre The School for Scandal, Moby Dick, He has appeared on stages right Company. Other theatre credits The Club, and Democracy (Sydney across Australia, most recently for include The Blind Giant is Dancing Theatre Company), Cabaret Darlinghurst Theatre Company in (Belvoir), The Cherry Orchard, (Gordon Frost Organisation) Small Mouth Sounds. Selected The Season at Sarsaparilla, The History Boys (Peach Theatre theatre credits include The Norman The Lost Echo, A Midsummer Company) and End of the Rainbow Conquests (Ensemble Theatre), Night’s Dream, Mother Courage (Ensemble Theatre/MTC). Paul is Sami in Paradise, The Great Fire, and Her Children, The Cripple of best known for his roles as Agent Ivanov (Belvoir), Cyrano de Inishmaan, Attempts On Her Life Brown in The Matrix and Stark in Bergerac, Vere[Faith], Gross und (Sydney Theatre Company), Golem the sci-fi series, Farscape. Further Klein, Blood Wedding (Sydney Story, Knives in Hens, The Ham film credits include Holy Smoke, Theatre Company), Othello, Henry Funeral, The Journal of the Plague Holding the Man, The Everlasting IV, King Lear (Bell Shakespeare), Year (Malthouse Theatre), and Secret Family and Babe. Television 1984 (national tour, State Theatre Macbeth (Bell Shakespeare). credits include Top of the Lake: Company of South Australia), Dan will next be seen on screen China Girl directed by Jane Cyrano de Bergerac (Sport for in Secret Bridesmaid’s Business, Campion, Deep Water, Pulse, Jove), receiving a Sydney Theatre Stateless and The End. Other Sons and Daughters, Water Rats, Award for playing the titular role, television work includes Reckoning, The Lost World and All Saints. When the Rain Stops Falling (Brink Sisters, The Code, Deep Water, Paul graduated from NIDA in 1984. Productions), and Reflections Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, on Gallipoli with the Australian Offspring, Mary Bryant, The Secret Chamber Orchestra. Yalin recently Life of Us, Wildside, and Raw FM. featured in the television series Dan’s feature film credits include Total Control (ABC) and Diary of an The Hunter, Tom White and One Uber Driver (ABC). He is also the Perfect Day. Dan has received two central character in award-winning Green Room Award nominations, independent comic Burger Force. a Sydney Theatre Award and a Yalin is a graduate of NIDA. Helpmann Award Nomination for his previous theatre work. Cast & Creative Team

PAMELA RABE NICK SCHLIEPER ESTHER MARIE HAYES Director Set & Lighting Designer Costume Designer Pamela Rabe has directed Jumpy, Nick Schlieper has previously Esther Marie Hayes has designed Solomon and Marion, In the Next designed lighting for Twelfth Night, costumes for Melbourne Theatre Room or The Vibrator Play and Macbeth, Hamlet, Richard III, Poor Company’s Hay Fever, Macbeth, Elling for Melbourne Theatre Boy, Ninety, The Visit, and designed Double Indemnity, The Beast, Other Company; Elling and The Serpent’s both set and lighting for Death Desert Cities, The Heretic, Hamlet, Teeth: Citizens (Sydney Theatre and The Maiden and North by All About My Mother, Richard III and Company), and Porn.Cake Northwest for Melbourne Theatre Rockabye. Other costume credits (Malthouse Theatre). She has Company. Other lighting design include North by Northwest (MTC appeared in more than forty credits include The Real Thing, and Kay + McLean Productions), MTC productions including Mosquitos, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, William Tell, Nixon in China, The Children, Hamlet, Boston Chimerica, The Present, Harp in the Midnight Son and Baroque Triple Bill Marriage, God of Carnage, Dinner, South, Waiting for Godot, Gross (Victorian Opera), Curtains (The Blithe Spirit, The Beauty Queen und Klein, and War of the Roses Production Company), Mother and of Leenane, A Little Night Music, (Sydney Theatre Company), Son (McLaren House), Delectable Private Lives, A Room of One’s Own, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Shelter (The Hayloft Project), and Così, Lost in Yonkers, Much Ado The Musical (Michael Cassel Scare Campaign (Cyan Films). About Nothing, Taming of the Group), Love Never Dies (The Really Esther is one third of The Sisters Shrew, The Heidi Chronicles, Useful Company), Médée and Lear Hayes, a sibling artist group. Too Young for Ghosts, Medea, and (Salzburg Festival), A Midsummer They have designed both set and Top Girls. She performed in ten Night’s Dream and Billy Budd costumes for Golden Shield (MTC), productions as a founding member (Hamburg State Opera), and The Antigone, Walking into the Bigness of STC’s Actors Company, including Ring Cycle (State Opera of South and Blood Wedding (Malthouse The War of the Roses, The Season Australia). He designed the set and Theatre). Esther graduated from the at Sarsaparilla, and Mother lighting for Endgame, Face to Face, Victorian College of the Arts in 2006. Courage and Her Children. and Baal (Sydney Theatre Company). Cast & Creative Team

MARY FINSTERER ANNA McCROSSIN-OWEN Composer & Sound Designer Voice & Dialect Coach Mary Finsterer is recognised as one Anna McCrossin-Owen’s theatre of Australia’s finest composers. credits include over 50 productions Photograph 51 marks her debut for Melbourne Theatre Company with the Melbourne Theatre including Heisenberg, A View from Company. Previous credits include the Bridge, Gloria, Frost/Nixon, her opera Biographica, (Sydney Rock’n’Roll, Spelling Bee, and Chamber Opera/Ensemble Cyrano De Bergerac. Film credits Offspring/Sydney Festival). She include coaching Emily Mortimer has received three Australian for RELIC, Dame Helen Mirren and Apra|Amcos Art Music Awards, the the cast of Winchester, Margot Vocal Award for Biographica and Robbie, Chewitel Ejiofor, and Chris Instrumental Work of the Year for Pine for Z for Zachariah. Television chamber orchestral work Aerea credits include The Crown and the duet, Ignis. She has (Australian Accent Advisor), represented Australia in five Mr. Inbetween, Glitch, The Family International Society for Law Series 1–3 and The Kettering Contemporary Music Festivals and Incident. Anna teaches Spoken has won many accolades including Voice at the Victorian College of the Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize. the Arts. She is a graduate of the She has been featured in several University of Queensland (BA), VCA portrait concerts including ANAM (Acting) and VMT (Voice). She is an Australian Voices (Melbourne Associate of Trinity College London Recital Centre) and Ensemble and AMEB Australia. She consults Offspring (Sydney Opera House), to businesses and trains video who have subsequently toured her news journalists. Anna has been music throughout Australia and honoured by the Victorian China. Feature film credits include Green Room Association for her the score for South Solitary (Dir. Outstanding Contribution to the Shirley Barrett) and additional Melbourne Stage. music for Die Hard 4. Residencies and fellowships include a Churchill Fellowship, an Australia Council Composer Fellowship, Royal Netherlands Government Award and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra composer-in-residence. 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LEGACY CIRCLE Acknowledging supporters who have made the visionary gesture of including a gift to MTC in their will. Mark and Tamara Boldiston Peter and Betty Game Dr Andrew McAliece and Max Schultz Bernadette Broberg Fiona Griffiths Dr Richard Simmie Jillian Smith Adam and Donna Cusack-Muller Linda Herd Peter Philpott and Diane Tweeddale Irene Kearsey Robert Ratcliffe Anonymous (11)

LEGACY GIFTS Remembering and honouring those who have generously supported MTC through a bequest. The Estate of Leta-Rae Arthy The Estate of Gordan J Compton The Kitty and Leslie Sandy The Estate of Prudence The Christine Brown Bequest The Estate of Betty Ilic Bequest Ann Tutton The Estate of Ron Chapman The Estate of Bettie Kornhauser The Estate of James Hollis The Estate of Freda E White Minson The Estate of Dorothy Wood

Acknowledging Donors who join together to support innovative and inspiring programs for the benefit of our community. ▲ ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S ■ YOUTH AMBASSADORS ◆ WOMEN IN THEATRE ● EDUCATION CIRCLE GIVING CIRCLE GIVING CIRCLE GIVING CIRCLE

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Hear from some of the artists in our 2020 season including Lisa McCune, Joanna Murray-Smith, Bert LaBonté, David Williamson and Benjamin Law as they tell us about next year's plays. Watch the videos at mtc.com.au/backstage

On stage next year

EMERALD CITY SEXUAL MISCONDUCT by David Williamson OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES Nadine Garner stars in David Williamson’s by Hannah Moscovitch glittering, harbour-side comedy, as we Catch Dan Spielman in this Australian celebrate 50 years of his plays on premiere, a compelling story about the Australian stages. dangers of power and privilege. 6 MAR — 18 APR 15 MAY — 27 JUN

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