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While there are a number of great Australian classics, there are few that manage the trifecta – withstanding the test of time, having successful iterations across multiple artforms and maintaining their place on school curriculums. It just so happens that two of these classics appear in our 2019 Season. Later in the year we’ll be treated to a spectacular new staging of Storm Boy, and this new production of Così brings Louis Nowra’s much loved characters back to MTC, 25 years after Così’s debut. This special story reminds us all of the transformative power of music and performance, and how art can make us soar – even if just for a moment. It is vital for us as human beings and something MTC promotes year round through our productions and special programs. As we approach the end of the financial year, we invite you to help MTC continue leading the way on and off-stage by making a tax-deductable donation at mtc.com.au/continuethestory. The important role donations play for the company has grown exponentially over the years, and they have allowed us to achieve some truly extraordinary things. MTC’s home venue continues to be a remarkable and enduring example of what can be achieved through the power of philanthropy. Like each and every production at MTC, Southbank Theatre itself could not have existed without the shared passion, generosity and loyalty of our donors. Here’s to 10 years of our home and those who made it possible. Enjoy the show.

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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 A MELBOURNE THEATRE COMPANY & SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION COSÌ BY LOUIS NOWRA

30 APRIL — 8 JUNE 2019 Southbank Theatre, The Sumner

— About the Play — ‘Let’s aim for the stars!’ It’s 1971 Australia and outside, the nation is protesting the war in Vietnam. Inside, a cast of lovable amateurs are preparing for a performance of Mozart’s famous comic opera, Così Fan Tutte, but no-one can sing, act or speak Italian. Its aspiring young director, Lewis, has just finished drama school and his first directing gig is at a psychiatric facility. What could possibly go wrong?

— Cast — — Creative Team — Gabriel Fancourt Zac/Nick Director Sarah Goodes Esther Hannaford Julie/Lucy Set Designer Dale Ferguson Glenn Hazeldine Henry Costume Designer Jonathon Oxlade Bessie Holland Cherry Lighting Designer Niklas Pajanti Sean Keenan Lewis Composer & Sound Designer Chris Williams Robert Menzies Roy Associate Sound Designer Amy Holley Rahel Romahn Doug Assistant Director Rachel Chant Katherine Tonkin Ruth Fight Choreographer Lyndall Grant George Zhao Justin Stage Manager Julia Smith Stage Manager – Tour Jess Maguire Assistant Stage Manager Pippa Wright Costume Design Mentee Charlotte Lane Production Secondment Caitlin Tsiolkas Rehearsal Photography Deryk McAlpin Production Photography Jeff Busby

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Opening Night Partner Production Partner Media Partner A co-production with STC Motley Mozart

Louis Nowra tells Fiona Gruber about the people who changed his life, and how they came to form the inspiration behind his iconic play Cosí.

Director Sarah Goodes with Katherine Tonkin, Esther Hannaford and Bessie Holland

t the beginning of Cosí, would-be For Lewis’s girlfriend Lucy and best friend thespian and psychiatric hospital Nick, it is their place in the tumultuous patient Roy says, ‘This is where political landscape of early 70s Australia I belong, in the theatre.’ that is the problem. They’re fighting against A the status quo and Australia’s involvement The themes of identity and belonging are in the Vietnam War; what sort of a society central to Louis Nowra’s play. Its characters do they want to belong to? have trouble adhering to the world as it is, and for young theatre director Lewis and Nowra wrote Cosí in 1992 but based it on his odd-ball cast of the hospitalised, the events of his own youth; in 1971, as a make-believe world of Mozart’s and 20-year-old he directed a version of Da Ponte’s opera is a welcome refuge. Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operetta, Trial by Jury, at Plenty Psychiatric Hospital in Melbourne’s northern suburbs. Bessie Holland, Katherine Tonkin, Glenn Hazeldine, Rahel Romahn, Esther Hannaford, Robert Menzies and Sean Keenan; (below) Sean Keenan and George Zhao He hated the operetta (which is why he ‘The audience go “oh my goodness, are we substituted it with Mozart in the play) and laughing at the patients or are we laughing it wasn’t a great production, he says, but it with them?”’ he says, ‘But by the end,’ he was worth it. continues, ‘they’ve forgotten they’re watching patients, rather than an eccentric group of ‘It was a one-off performance and I don’t characters brought together for a play.’ know how messy it was but at the end, it was one of the greatest experiences of And he says his characters, including my life; after the applause, the euphoria pyromaniac, sex-mad Doug, obsessive- was absolutely magnificent. Because you compulsive Ruth and know-it-all Roy, can have to remember, asylums are very be found in many a theatre cast, alongside melancholic places.’ egos that have to be assuaged. ‘You have to give an aria to each actor so that there The play has been performed around the would be no jealousy’. world (most recently in China) and is produced by between 20 and 30 amateur The environment of Cosí is a world that companies every year in Australia; no longer exists. It’s difficult to convey, its savage humour bites hard, but the he says, the important role asylums played laughter is, at the start, uneasy. in society before most were closed in the 1990s.

(Below) Director Sarah Goodes with Robert Menzies and Rahel Romahn; (opposite, clockwise from left) Glenn Hazeldine, Bessie Holland and Rahel Romahn; Glenn Hazeldine; Gabriel Fancourt ‘… I thought there was an honesty among [them] about their own condition and how they saw the world.’

— Louis Nowra

Although in many cases places of abuse, who wanted to overthrow the government they were also, he argues, places of refuge. and believed their own bullshit. ‘[In contrast] I thought there was an honesty among mental By the 1960s, the introduction of tranquilisers patients about their own condition and how and anti-psychotic drugs had treated a they saw the world,’ he says. generation of patients. It is this era in which the play is set, an era that saw revolutionary Nowra knows more about mental illness ideas about mental health alongside and institutions than many of his rebellion in the streets. contemporaries; both his grandmothers spent time in Melbourne’s Mont Park ‘Lewis, like me became much more fascinated Asylum and his mother suffered from in what was happening in the mind than what trauma. ‘She had her demons’, he explains, was happening outside,’ Nowra explains. He ‘because she shot and killed her father.’ describes the student radicals as "poseurs" (From top) George Zhao; Gabriel Fancourt with Director Sarah Goodes; Glenn Hazeldine, Katherine Tonkin, Robert Menzies and Gabriel Fancourt

He’s written about his troubled childhood in the memoir The Twelfth of Never: it’s also fictionalised in his 1992 play, Summer of the Aliens; featuring a teenaged Lewis; Così, is the second part of a semi- autobiographical trilogy. The third and final play, This Much is True, was written after a 25-year gap.

The latter is set in a pub in the harbour-side Sydney suburb of Woollomooloo and it’s there that I meet Nowra. He spends part of each day at the Old Fitzroy Hotel and the final part of the Lewis Trilogy was commissioned and produced by the hotel’s resident theatre company, Red Line Productions, in 2017.

What unites all three plays, and is as true of Cosí as for the rest, he says, is a cast of oddball characters who have trouble fitting in.

‘The pub we’re in … I felt right at home and a lot of people I mix with here are definitely a bit strange. I thought, that’s typical, I’ve gone for a group of people I really adore … but in the three plays these people are never going to be part of middle class suburbia; and those are the people that have changed my life.’ n

Hear more from playwright Louis Nowra in our MTC Talks podcast series. mtc.com.au/MTCTalks Cast & Creative Team

GABRIEL FANCOURT ESTHER HANNAFORD GLENN HAZELDINE Zac / Nick Julie / Lucy Henry

Gabriel Fancourt is a graduate of Esther Hannaford most recently Since graduating from NIDA in NIDA where he appeared in Lord played Viola in Twelfth Night 1994, Glenn Hazeldine's selected of the Flies, A Midsummer Nights (Melbourne Theatre Company) theatre credits include Dead Dream and This Property is and Carole King in Beautiful: The White Males, The Judas Kiss, Condemned. Gabriel’s further Carole King Musical (Michael Don’s Party, The Father (MTC); theatre work includes Henry V Cassel Group). Other theatre Away and Love and Information for Bell Shakespeare; The credits include Mr Burns (Malthouse Theatre); Disgraced, Hypochondriac for Darlinghurst (Belvoir); The Last Man Standing Arcadia, After Dinner, Perplex, Theatre Company; K.I.J.E, Fallout (Melbourne Theatre Company) Tot Mom, Elling, The Pig Iron and Babes in the Woods for Old Little Shop of Horrors (Tinderbox People and Julius Caesar (STC); Fitz Theatre; and A Midsummer Productions); Nice Work If You Jack Manning Trilogy, Managing Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Can Get It (The Production Carmen, Tuesdays with Morrie The Tempest, A Comedy of Errors, Company); Three Mikados and A View from the Bridge Edward II, Measure for Measure, (Melbourne Comedy Festival); (Ensemble Theatre), A Hoax The Servant of Two Masters and King Kong (Global Creatures); and Porn.Cake (Griffin Theatre River at the End of The Road for Miracle City (The Hayes); Virgins Company) and As You Like It (Bell Sport for Jove Theatre Company. (Malthouse Theatre); Hairspray Shakespeare). Film and television He has also appeared in Cry (Dainty/Roadshow); Hair, Mame credits include House of Bond, Havoc’s Titus Andronicus and and The Boyfriend (The The Moodys, ANZAC Girls, Punk Rock for ATYP and This Is Production Company); Once We Redfern Now 2, The Elegant Not Mills and Boon for Old Lived Here (fortyfivedownstairs). Gentleman’s Guide To Knife 505 Theatre. Selected awards include Fighting, All Saints, Blackjack, Helpmann and Green Room Last Train To Freo and Dripping Awards for Beautiful: The Carole in Chocolate. Glenn is a proud King Musical; Sydney Theatre member of Actors Equity, where Critic Award for Little Shop of he serves as Vice President of the Horrors; Helpmann Award and NSW branch, and is Deputy Green Room Award for Hairspray; Chairman of the Actors Green Room Award for King Kong Benevolent Fund of NSW. and Once We Lived Here.

The cast of Così wish to acknowledge their position as proud members of Actors Equity. Cast & Creative Team

BESSIE HOLLAND SEAN KEENAN ROBERT MENZIES

Cherry Lewis Roy

Bessie Holland’s theatre credits Sean Keenan made his screen Robert Menzies acts in Così after include The House of Bernarda debut at the age of fourteen in appearing in Macbeth, The Weir, Alba (Melbourne Theatre Lockie Leonard, playing the title The Cherry Orchard, Music, Company), The Sovereign Wife role of the series based on Tim Queen Lear, Hamlet, Life Without (Melbourne Theatre Company, Winton’s novels. Sean’s television Me and August: Osage County for NEON/Sisters Grimm), Accidental credits include Cloudstreet, Melbourne Theatre Company. Death of An Anarchist (Sydney Puberty Blues (Series 1 and 2), He has also appeared in Ghosts, Theatre Company), Blaque Dance Academy, Glitch (Series 1, A Christmas Carol, The Wild Showgirls (Malthouse Theatre), 2 and 3), Hunters, Hoges, Duck, The End, The Threepenny Summertime in the Garden of Newton’s Law and Wake in Opera, Measure for Measure Eden (Griffin Theatre Company/ Fright. Sean’s film credits include (Belvoir); A Midsummer Night’s Sisters Grimm), The Lower Strangerland opposite Nicole Dream, The Golden Age, Depths (Ariette Taylor, Kidman and Hugo Weaving, Macbeth, Fury, Gross Und Klein, fortyfivedownstairs). Short film Australia Day, Hard Target 2, Is War of the Roses, Reunion/ credits include True History of This the Real World, Drift, Nim’s A Kind of Alaska, Julius Caesar, Billie the Kid (directed by Leticia Island and will next be seen in Seneca’s Oedipus (Sydney Cáceres). TV credits include feature The True History of the Theatre Company); The season 2 of Get Krackin’ (ABC Kelly Gang, alongside Thomasin Government Inspector and Knives directed by Hayden Guppy) The McKenzie, Essie Davis and in Hens (Malthouse Theatre). Beautiful Lie directed by Peter Nicholas Hoult. For his Robert has also appeared in Salmon (ABC) and Wentworth performance in Wake in Fright, numerous films including Cactus, (FOXTEL, Fremantle Media) Sean was nominated for an Force of Destiny, Canopy, Home, Seasons 2 – 6. Bessie has just AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor Siam Sunset, Three Dollars, finished filming The Dry, which in a Television Drama. Sean’s Lamb, Bliss and Heatwave. For will be her film debut, directed other accolades include a Logie television he has appeared in by Robert Connolly. Award Nomination for Most Glitch, The Beautiful Lie, Monash Outstanding New Talent, an AFI & the ANZAC Legend, My Brother Nomination for the Young Actor’s Jack and 3 Acts of Murder. Award and was an AFI Heath Ledger Scholarship Finalist in 2016. Cast & Creative Team

RAHEL ROMAHN KATHERINE TONKIN GEORGE ZHAO Doug Ruth Justin

Rahel Romahn is one of Katherine Tonkin’s theatre credits George Zhao is an award-winning Australia’s rising young actors include Abigail’s Party, Three actor working across film, TV and with a string of impressive credits Little Words, The Cherry Orchard, theatre. Since graduating with a in film, theatre and television. Apocalypse Bear Trilogy, Bachelor of Dramatic Art in 2013 Così marks Rahel’s debut at Cloud Nine and Explorations: he has performed in leading roles Melbourne Theatre Company. A Streetcar Named Desire in Monkey Tales (Monkey Baa Previous theatre productions for (Melbourne Theatre Company); Theatre Company) and in the the Sydney Theatre Company The Histrionic and Baal (Sydney sold out season of The Screw include Mary Stuart directed by Theatre Company/Malthouse Tape Letters (Twisted Tree Lee Lewis, The Harp in the South, Theatre); The Wild Duck and Theatre Company), which toured Three Sisters and A Midsummer Elektra/Orestes (Belvoir); nationally in 2016 and 2017. Night’s Dream all directed by Conversation Piece (Lucy Guerin In 2018, he performed in the Kip Williams. In film, Rahel has Inc/Belvoir); Tame, OT: award-winning Sydney Theatre appeared in The Combination: Chronicles of the Old Testament Company production The Harp in Redemption, Ali’s Wedding, (Malthouse Theatre); The the South – parts One and Two. Down Under, Alex & Eve and the Eisteddfod (Malthouse Theatre/ Screen roles include SBS Oscar shortlisted The Ground Brisbane Powerhouse/Downstairs webseries Homecoming Queens; Beneath. He will soon be seen Belvoir); Xenides – which she TV series Jack Irish, and most in Little Monsters. In television also co-devised (Black Swan recently, lead role of Leo Gao in he has been seen in Secret City State Theatre Co); Gilgamesh Runaway Millionaires. His awards Series 2, Mr Inbetween, Pulse, (Melbourne Festival/Sydney include Best Guest Actor at the The Other Guy, Hyde and Seek, Opera House/Barbican/China 2017 LA Web Film Festival for his Janet King Series 2, Cleverman, tour); Smashed (Griffin role in the short film It Came Ready for This, The Principal, Independent); I Heart John from Outer Suburbia, and 2018 Underbelly: The Golden Mile and McEnroe (Theatreworks); Duets MEAA Best Ensemble Cast for Gangs of Oz. Coming up next is for Lovers and Dreamers Comedy for his ongoing role as Australian Gangster. Rahel’s (fortyfivedownstairs); and Andrew Law in the hit SBS show work in The Principal garnered 3XSisters (Hayloft Project). The Family Law. Recently, George nominations for a Logie Award Screen credits include: was also awarded the 2018 Rising and an AACTA Award. Wentworth, The BBQ, Macbeth, Star award by the Casting Guild Nowhere Boys, The Future is of Australia. Expensive, Winners and Losers (Series 3 and 4), City Homicide (Series 3 and 4), Neighbours, Blue Heelers, Snake Tales and Kick. Katherine is a graduate of WAAPA and proud member of Actors’ Equity. VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS 2019

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LOUIS NOWRA SARAH GOODES DALE FERGUSON Playwright Director Set Designer

Louis Nowra was born in Sarah Goodes is Associate Dale Ferguson’s designs have Melbourne. He is the author of Artistic Director of Melbourne been a regular feature of MTC plays Inner Voices, Visions, Inside Theatre Company. She is a productions, most recently in An the Island, Sunrise, The Golden Helpmann Award-winning Ideal Husband, Born Yesterday, Age, Capricornia, Byzantine theatre director recognised for Skylight, The Weir, The Flowers, Summer of the Aliens, bringing over 14 new Australian Speechmaker, Neighbourhood Radiance, The Temple, Crow, works to the mainstage. For Watch, The Crucible, Top Girls, The Incorruptible, Miss Bosnia, Melbourne Theatre Company, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, The Jungle, The Language of the Sarah’s work includes Arbus & Life Without Me, The Drowsy Gods and The Boyce Trilogy. West, Astroman, A Doll’s House, Chaperone, God of Carnage, LOOKING Louis’ screen credits include Map Part 2, The Children (with Sydney August: Osage County, The 25th of the Human Heart, Così, Theatre Company), Three Little Annual Putman County Spelling Heaven’s Burning, The Words, and John. As Resident Bee, and The History Boys. Matchmaker, Radiance, K-19: Director at Sydney Theatre Ferguson has worked for AHEAD The Widowmaker and Black and Company, Sarah directed The Australia’s leading theatre White. He was co-writer of the Hanging, Disgraced, Orlando, companies on productions such UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE DEGREES documentary series First Battle of Waterloo, The Effect, as King Lear (Bell Shakespeare Acting | Theatre | Design and Production | Music Theatre | Australians. He has written six Vere (Faith), The Splinter, and Company), Anything Goes non-fiction works: The Cheated, Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats (Gordon Frost Organisation), Directing for Performance | Writing for Performance | Warne’s World, Walkabout, of Loneliness, and Associate Counting and Cracking (Belvoir), Dramaturgy | Design for Performance Chihuahuas, Women and Me, Director on The Present. Sarah’s Away (Malthouse Theatre) Bad Dreaming, Kings Cross: other directing credits include and Les Liaisons Dangereuses The Victorian College of the Arts prepares emerging artists for A Biography and, most recently, The Sugar House (Belvoir), The (Sydney Theatre Company). future careers in theatre performance, directing, writing and Woolloomooloo: a Biography. Sweetest Thing, The Small Ferguson has designed many His novels include The Misery of Things, Elling, and Black Milk international opera productions, production, and is proud to see its graduates succeed all over the Beauty, Palu, Red Nights, Abaza (B Sharp Belvoir); The Colour most recently, Lyric Opera of world. We wish Sarah Goodes (VCA alumna 1998), Niklas Pajanti and Ice and young adult fiction of Panic (Sydney Opera House); Chicago’s production of The (VCA alumna 1997) and the MTC cast and crew the best for their Into That Forest and The Prince Vertigo and the Virginia, The Magic Flute. Ferguson has season of Cosi. of Afghanistan. His two memoirs Schelling Point, Hilt, and What received five Green Room are The Twelfth of Never and Happened Was (Old Fitz Awards, most recently in 2018 for Shooting the Moon. Louis’ latest Theatre). In 2018, Sarah won Away, and the 2010 Helpmann Don’t miss a beat this year, sign up to our e-news: play is This Much Is True and a Helpmann Award for Best Award for MTC’s August: Osage finearts-music.unimelb.edu.au/signup premiered at the Old Fitz in Direction of a Play for her work County. His set and costume Sydney in July 2017. on The Children, which also won designs for Belvoir/Malthouse Cast of Peter Pan (2018), photo by Drew Echberg Helpmann Awards for Best Play Theatre’s production of Exit the and Best Female Actor. King earned him Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations when the production transferred to Faculty of Fine Arts Broadway in 2009. and Music

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JONATHON OXLADE NIKLAS PAJANTI CHRIS WILLIAMS Costume Designer Lighting Designer Composer & Sound Designer

Jonathon has designed for For Melbourne Theatre Company Chris Williams is a composer and Windmill Theatre Co, Sydney Niklas has designed the lighting conductor whose works have Theatre Company, Belvoir, for A View from the Bridge, been performed by Melbourne Queensland Theatre, Restless Astroman, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Dance Theatre, The Last Great Rupert, Australia Day (with STC), Symphony Orchestra, London Hunt, Terrapin Puppet Theatre, The Cherry Orchard, The Beast, Musical Theatre Orchestra, Joyful Barking Gecko, Arena Theatre and Queen Lear. Other theatre Company of Singers, The Song Company, Bell Shakespeare, credits include When the Rain Company, The Australian Voices, Vitalstatistix, Aphids, The Stops Falling, Spring Awakening, Cavaleri Quartet, Schola Cantorum, Escapists, The Border Project, I Want to Dance Better at Parties and Manchester Chamber Choir. LaBoite Theatre, Sydney Opera (STC); One Night the Moon, Not Chris’s San-Shih-Fan was House, Melbourne Festival, Like Beckett (Malthouse Theatre); commissioned by and premiered Adelaide Festival, AsiaTOPA, Angels in America, The Wild at New York’s Carnegie Hall. For STCSA, Malthouse Theatre Duck, Babyteeth, Who’s Afraid Melbourne Theatre Company he and Performance Space. For of Virginia Woolf, The Pillowman designed sound for A Doll’s Melbourne Theatre Company he (Belvoir); Sunday in the Park with House, Part 2. Other credits has designed Astroman, Big Bad George (Victorian Opera). His include Cloud Nine, A Midsummer Wolf (Windmill Theatre) and Boy dance credits include Skeleton Night’s Dream (STC); Fascination Girl Wall (The Escapists). He is Tree (Stephanie Lake), Specktra, (Arcola Theatre); The Cold Clear currently Resident Designer at Dust (Dancenorth) Complexity of Elsewhere (Edinburgh Fringe). In Windmill Theatre Co. His film Belonging, An Act of Now, Black 2017 Chris won the compositional work includes Girl Asleep and has Marrow 247 Days, Singularity prize at the Australian illustrated the picture book The (Chunky Move); Piece for Person International Chopin Competition Empty City for Hachette Livre/ and Ghetto Blaster (Nicola and received a Sydney Theatre Lothian Books. Jonathon has Gunn). Exhibitions include Award nomination for Cloud received Matilda Awards for Wonderland, Game Masters, Nine. Other work includes Best Design for A Christmas Star Voyager: Exploring Space Compositional Techniques and Carol and Attack of the Attacking on Screen (ACMI), Tim Burton The Harmony Tutor at University of Attackers; PAWA Award for Best Exhibition (MOMA), Hollywood Oxford; Composer-in-residence Costume for The Irresistible; Costume (V&A Museum). Niklas with The Australian Voices; Sydney Theatre Award for Best has won two Green Room Creative Arts Fellow at National Costume for Mr Burns; APDG Awards, a Helpmann and Sydney Library of Australia; and Music Award for Best Production Design Theatre Award and has received Librarian at Central Music Library and Best Costume for Girl Asleep; 10 Green Room Award of the BBC. He is Associate Artist ACCTA Award for Best Costume nominations. at the Australian Music Centre. Girl Asleep; Lord Mayor’s Chris holds a Master’s in Fellowship to attend Prague Composition from University Quadrennial of Scenography and of Oxford and is a graduate of Architecture; and Sidney Myer Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Creative Fellowship 2016.

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AMY HOLLEY RACHEL CHANT Associate Sound Designer Assistant Director

After spending four years sound Rachel Chant is a Sydney-based designing throughout Brisbane, director and is Festival Director Amy Holley is incredibly excited of Bondi Feast. Recent to join Melbourne Theatre productions include Love Company as their Associate (Darlinghurst Theatre Company); Sound Designer for Così. Her Glengarry Glen Ross (NIDA); work has most recently been Intersection 2018: Chrysalis (ATYP featured in Sometimes it’s Hot @ Griffin Theatre Company); 2018 Like the Sun (Undone Theatre Griffin Award Readings (Griffin); Collective); The Eisteddfod The Village Bike (Old Fitz (Room To Play and Metro Arts); Theatre); Moth (ATYP); Leaves NSFW (Underground (Kings X Theatre); When the Rain Productions); and Nobody Likes Stops Falling (New Theatre); the Winter (Ryškus Productions). Decay (Old505 Theatre); Machine Throughout this time Amy has (Old505 Theatre); Blue Italian also cultivated her technical and (Site&Sound). As Assistant recording abilities, working as a Director, Mortido (Belvoir / theatre technician and recording STCSA, dir. Leticia Caceres). engineer. Amy’s expertise has Selected awards include Sydney been refined throughout her Theatre Award nominations for studies at JMC Academy, where Moth and The Village Bike; she graduated with a Bachelor of BroadwayWorld Best Director Audio Engineering and Sound Award for Leaves; Suzy Goes Production. See’s Best Direction for Love and When The Rain Stops Falling. Rachel is a member of MTC’s 2019 Women in Theatre Program. She has worked as director, script assessor and dramaturg for Playwriting Australia and was the Artistic and Directorial Associate for the inaugural women’s theatre festival, Festival Fatale. Rachel has a Masters of Applied Theatre Studies from the University of New England. 103 U9, Fox Studios, 38 Driver Avenue, Moore Park, NSW 2021 Telephone Box Office (02) 9250 1777 Administration (02) 9250 1700 Email [email protected] Website sydneytheatre.com.

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Executive Director & Payroll Officer Mungo Trumble Mark D Wheeler Co-CEO Technical Manager – Ernesto Munoz Leah Purcell Julia Godinho Building Services Ellen van Neerven Kathleen Higgs Staging Manager Emma Palackic Payments Officer Adam Rogers Chris Ryan ARTISTIC Lisa Maundrell Andrew Bellchambers Adrian Aderhold CAD Drafting Richard Saxby Megan Washington Producer House Services Mark Leonard Winter MARKETING & Jacob Battista Manager Sophie Scott Martina Murray COMMUNICATIONS Myles Tankle Malcolm Robertson Associate Artistic Alexander Rothnie James Cunningham Marketing & Kris Bird Bella Vadiveloo MTC Foundation Director Production Services Commissions Communications Staging Supervisor HQ Manager Rhian Wilson Sarah Goodes Jamaica Zuanetti Angela Betzien Associate Director Director Nicholas Stace Frank Stoffels Vanessa Rowsthorn Dean Bryant PROPERTIES Bar Manager TICKETING OVERSEAS Literary Director Marketing Manager Claire Marsh Director CRM & REPRESENTATIVES James Wright Properties Supervisor Lawler & Events Chris Mead Geoff McGregor Ticketing New York Casting Director Digital Manager Technical Supervisor Dale Bradbury Kevin Emrick Daniel Coghlan Props Maker Tom Brayshaw Janine Snape Colin Penn Ticketing Manager Company Manager/ Marketing Campaign Lighting Supervisor Brenna Sotiropoulos Assistant Producer Manager SCENIC ART Richard Gorr Subscriptions Stephen Moore Ebony Addinsall Scenic Art Supervisor Staging Supervisor Supervisor NEXT STAGE Marketing Executive Shane Dunn Grant Kennelly Jessie Phillips Administrator Rebecca Lawrence Scenic Artists Sound Supervisor Database Specialist Karin Farrell Lead Graphic Designer/ Tansy Elso Terry McKibbin Ben Gu Literary Associate Art Director Colin Harman Head Flyman Data Analyst Jennifer Medway Emma Wagstaff James Tucker Megan Thomson Designer WORKSHOP Stage & Technical VIP Ticketing Officer CATERING Helena Turinski Workshop Supervisor Staff Michael Bingham Catering Manager Graphic Designer Aldo Amenta Matthew Arthur Andrea Purvis Victoria U Deputy Workshop Trent Barclay Assistant Manager Supervisor Sam Berkley Anita Lyovic Andrew Weavers Simon Bond Café Staff Set Makers Michael Burnell Bev Reinmuth Ken Best John Carberry

PROGRAMME CREDITS Managing Editor Rosie Shepherdson-Cullen Editor & Writer Sarah Corridon Graphic Design Emma Wagstaff, Helena Turinski Cover Photo Justin Ridler MTC Circles of Giving

MTC gratefully acknowledges our visionary donors

MTC LIFETIME PATRONS Acknowledging a lifetime of extraordinary support for MTC. Pat Burke Allan Myers ac qc and The Late Dr Roger Riordan am Caroline Young and Peter Clemenger ao and Maria Myers ac Maureen Wheeler ao and Derek Young am Joan Clemenger ao The Late Biddy Ponsford Tony Wheeler ao

ENDOWMENT DONORS Supporting the long term sustainability and creative future of MTC. Leading Endowment Donors The Late Biddy Ponsford $10,000+ Renzella Family $1,000,000+ Andrew Sisson ao and Prof Margaret Gardner ao and Anonymous Jane Hansen and Paul Little ao Tracey Sisson Prof Glyn Davis ac $1,000+ The University of Melbourne $20,000+ $5,000+ Virginia Lovett and $50,000+ Tony and Janine Burgess Rosie Harkness Rose Hiscock Geoffrey Cohen am Anne and Mark Robertson oam Jane Kunstler Orcadia Foundation

MTC’S PLAYWRIGHTS GIVING CIRCLE Supporting the Next Stage Writers’ Program. Louise Myer and Martyn Myer ao, Maureen Wheeler ao and Tony Wheeler ao, Christine Brown Bequest Naomi Milgrom ao, Allan Myers ac qc and Maria Myers ac, Tony Burgess and Janine Burgess Dr Andrew McAliece and Dr Richard Simmie, Larry Kamener and Petra Kamener

ANNUAL GIVING Donors whose annual gifts help MTC enrich and transform lives through the finest theatre imaginable.

Benefactors Circle The late Noel Mason and Leigh O’Neill ◆ Bruce Freeman ■ $250,000+ Susanna Mason ▲ Dr Kia Pajouhesh Gaye and John Gaylard Crown Resorts Foundation Craig Semple ▲ (Smile Solutions) Heather and Packer Family Foundation Dr Caroline Thew In loving memory of Richard Park Bob Glindemann oam Luisa Valmorbida ▲ Bruce Parncutt ao Henry Gold $50,000+ Anonymous Prof David Penington ac and Roger and Jan Goldsmith The Joan and Peter $5,000+ Dr Sonay Hussein Murray Gordon and Lisa Norton Clemenger Trust Jeanne Pratt ac Lesley Griffin The Cybec Foundation John and Lorraine Bates Janet Reid oam and Allan Reid Fiona Griffiths and John Higgins ao and Sandy Bell and Daryl Kendrick Kendra Reid Tony Osmond ◆ Jodie Maunder Bill Bowness ao Renzella Family Tony Hillery and Maureen Wheeler ao and Dr Andrew Buchanan and The Robert Salzer Foundation ◆ Warwick Eddington Tony Wheeler ao Peter Darcy Andrew Sisson ao and Peter and Halina Jacobsen Ian and Jillian Buchanan $20,000+ Tracey Sisson Irene Kearsey and Michael Ridley Sandra and Bill Burdett am Trawalla Foundation Trust Janette Kendall ◆ Betty Amsden Foundation Pat Burke and Jan Nolan Ralph Ward-Ambler am and Elizabeth Laverty Krystyna Campbell-Pretty John and Robyn Butselaar Barbara Ward-Ambler Alex and Halina Lewenberg Dr Geraldine Lazarus and The Janet and Michael Buxton Anonymous (3) Virginia Lovett and Greig Gailey Foundation Advocates Circle Rose Hiscock ● Jane Hansen and Barry and Joanne Cheetham Kim and Peter Monk ◆ Paul Little ao ● The Dowd Foundation $2,500–$4,999 Ging Muir and Louise and Martyn Myer ao Leon Goldman Marc Besen ac and John McCawley ■ Victorian Department of Robert and Jan Green Eva Besen ao Sandy and Sandra Murdoch Education and Training David and Lily Harris Jay Bethell and Peter Smart Jane and Andrew Murray The Vizard Foundation Jane Hemstritch Lynne and Rob Burgess Dr Paul Nisselle am and Caroline and Derek Young am ▲ Bruce and Mary Humphries Diana Burleigh Sue Nisselle Anonymous Karen Inge and Jenny and Stephen Charles ao Hilary and Stuart Scott ● $10,000+ Dr George Janko Diana Cregan ◆ Lynne Sherwood and the late Anne Le Huray Erica Bagshaw Debbie Dadon am Tim Sherwood Marshall Day Acoustics Ann Darby ● Joanna Baevski ● Ricci Swart (Dennis Irving Scholarship) Dr Anthony Dortimer Richard and Debra Tegoni ◆ ● The Cattermole Family Ian and Judi Marshman and Jillian Dortimer Tom and Elana Cordiner ● Cheryl and Paul Veith Matsarol Foundation Melody and Jonathan Feder ■ Price and Christine Williams Christine Gilbertson ◆ Ian and Margaret McKellar Dr Helen Ferguson Linda Herd ■ ● Margaret and Ray Wilson oam George and Rosa Morstyn Rosemary Forbes and Gillian and Tony Wood Macgeorge Bequest Tom and Ruth O’Dea ■ Ian Hocking Laurel Young-Das and Robert Drake Joan and George Lefroy Roslyn and Richard Rogers Heather Finnegan Bev and Geoff Edwards Leg Up Foundation Family ■ Anonymous (5) George and Eva Ermer Alison Leslie Sue Rose Loyalty Circle Anne and Graham Evans ao Dr Caroline Liow Anne and Laurie Ryan Dr Alastair Fearn Peter and Judy Loney F & J Ryan Foundation $1,000–$2,499 Grant Fisher and Helen Bird Lord Family ◆ Edwina Sahhar Prof Noel and Sylvia Alpins am Jan and Rob Flew Elizabeth Lyons Margaret Sahhar am Valma E. Angliss am Heather Forbes-McKeon ■ Ken and Jan Mackinnon Guy Sansom and James and Helen Angus Elizabeth Foster John Mann and Tina Mitas ● Treena Quarin Kate Aplin Glenn Fryer ● Helen Mantzis ◆ Susan Santoro Margaret Astbury John Fullerton Chris and Bruce Maple Kaylene Savas ◆ Ian Baker and Cheryl Saunders Nigel and Cathy Garrard Dr Sam and Belinda Margis and Graeme Seabrook John and Dagnija Balmford Diana and Murray Gerstman NEST Family Clinics ◆ Marshall Segan and Heather Bamford Gill Family Foundation Dr Hannah Mason Ylana Perlov Sandra Beanham Brian Goddard John and Margaret Mason oam Prof Barry Sheehan Angelina Beninati Charles and Cornelia Goode Don and Sue Matthews and Pamela Waller Tara Bishop ◆ Foundation ◆ Garry McLean Diane Silk Diane and Graeme Boyer Isabella Green oam and Elizabeth McMeekin Dr John Sime Steve and Terry Bracks am Richard Green Emeritus Prof Peter McPhee A Simon Jenny and Lucinda Brash John and Jo Grigg and Charlotte Allen Jane Simon and Peter Cox Bernadette Broberg Jane Grover ◆ Robert and Helena Mestrovic Reg and Elaine Smith oam – Beth Brown and Tom Bruce am Ian and Wendy Haines John G Millard Earimil Gardens Charity Hugh Burrill and Charles Harkin Ross and Judy Milne-Pott Tim and Angela Smith Dr Meridee Flower Mark and Jennifer Hayes ● Susan and Michael Minshall Annette Smorgon ◆ Julie Burke The Hon Peter Heerey am qc Felicity and Des Moore Diana and Brian Snape am Katie Burke and Sally Heerey Barbara and David Mushin Geoff and Judy Steinicke Pam Caldwell Barbara Higgins ◆ Jacquie Naylor ◆ ● Dr Ross and Helen Stillwell Alison and John Cameron Jane Hodder ◆ Nelson Bros Funeral Services Dr Mark Suss ■ John and Jan Campbell Sandi and Gil Hoskins Nick Nichola and Ingrid Moyle James and Anne Syme Jessica Canning Emeritus Prof Andrea Hull ao Susan Oliver ● Rodney and Aviva Taft Clare and Richard Carlson Ann and Tony Hyams am Dr Annamarie Perlesz Frank Tisher oam and Fiona Caro Peter Jaffe Peter Philpott and Dr Miriam Tisher Chef’s Hat Denis and Elissa Joachim Robert Ratcliffe Kevin and Elizabeth Walsh ■ Chernov Family Ed and Margaret Johnson Prof Hannah Piterman ◆ Anthony Watson and Keith Chivers and Ron Peel Prof Shitij Kapur and Betty and George Pizzey Tracey McDonald Assoc Prof Lyn Clearihan and Dr Sharmistha Law Dug and Lisa Pomeroy Pinky Watson Dr Anthony Palmer Malcolm Kemp Noel and Gaylene Porter Marion Webster ◆ Dr Robin Collier and Neil Collier Julie and Simon Kessel John and Joan Pye Penelope and Joshua White Sandy and Yvonne Constantine Fiona Kirwan-Hamilton Sally Redlich Ursula Whiteside Prof Barry Conyngham am and and Simon E Marks qc Victoria Redwood Ann and Alan Wilkinson Deborah Conyngham ● Doris and Steve Klein Julie and Ian Reid Jan Williams ■ Dr Cyril Curtain Larry Kornhauser and Christopher Richardson Mandy and Edward Yencken Mark and Jo Davey Natalya Gill ■ Phillip Riggio Greg Young Natasha Davies Josephine and Anne and Mark Anonymous (30) Cathryn Findlay Graeme Kraehe ao Robertson oam ◆ Tania de Jong am ◆ Pamela Lamaro ◆ Katharine Derham-Moore

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 (9)

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 CIRCLE ■ YOUTH AMBASSADORS ◆ WOMEN IN THEATRE ● EDUCATION GIVING CIRCLE GIVING CIRCLE GIVING CIRCLE

To find out more about supporting MTC please call 03 8688 0959 or visit mtc.com.au/support Current as of April 2019 Thank You

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If you would like to join our corporate family or host a private event, please contact [email protected] 2019 Partners current as of April 2019. You continue the story In celebration of 10 years at Southbank Theatre, Christie Whelan Browne reflects on what MTC means to her.

I first became involved with MTC in Year 10. MTC provides a workplace for so many My friends made a compilation VHS of all of people and so many actors. The storytelling my school musical performances and sent it is so great, the commitment to the work in to ask if I could do work experience…and from the Company is incredible and there’s they said yes. Year 10 Christie would never the support from donors who are so have imagined that [one day] she would generous in their support of the art. work for this Company. Sometimes I think back to that young girl and I think she’d just If you see me in the bows you’ll often see me be blown away. crying – and it’s not because I’m loving the applause – it’s because I am seeing the faces of people who have been moved by what ‘It’s one of my favourite they have just seen. And that’s why I do it. places to work.’

My first show at MTC [The Drowsy Chaperone], was a huge learning curve for Go backstage to watch Christie's me. I never got to study acting at university, full interview, alongside other so I learned so much from Simon Phillips members of the MTC community and everyone that worked on that show. at mtc.com.au/southbank10

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