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Shakespeare in Love is undoubtedly the largest- scale show we have undertaken in recent memory. That may be hard to believe following on from spectacular productions like Twelfth Night and An Ideal Husband in the past year, but this new creation exceeds them all. With a cast of 14 – plus a dog – it features 80 incredible costumes crafted by our in-house wardrobe staff, as well as 30 Elizabethan ruffs made by hand and each taking more than a day to craft. Shakespeare in Love is as much a feast for the eyes as a fabulously entertaining night at the theatre. Add to that the technical mastery in every aspect of the set, and a visionary creative team, and this is an Australian premiere production of which we’re particularly proud. Of course, an Elizabethan colossus such as this could be entrusted to none other than Simon Phillips, who has brought his unmistakable flair and precision to this joyous ode to theatre. And what a joy it is. We are immensely proud of the cast, creative team and many master craftspeople we are fortunate to have within MTC, whose remarkable talent and finesse are on show here tonight. Enjoy.

Brett Sheehy ao Virginia Lovett Artistic Director & CEO Executive Director & Co-CEO

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. 15 JULY – 14 AUGUST 2019 Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse

— About the Play — Young Will Shakespeare has a bad case of writer’s block and desperately needs a muse. His new comedy, Romeo and Ethel the Pirate’s Daughter, is less than inspired and he’s running out of time to deliver his next masterpiece. That is, until he meets Viola, and a real-life Romeo and Juliet story starts to take hold. But Viola has a secret, and this damned Romeo play is turning out to be nothing like the comedy the Queen demanded. — Cast — Musical Director Andrew Kroenert Will Shakespeare Michael Wahr Sound Designer Kerry Saxby Viola de Lesseps Claire van der Boom Choreographer Andrew Hallsworth John Webster / Mistress Quickly Aljin Abella Fight Director Nigel Poulton Kit Marlowe Luke Arnold Voice & Dialect Coach Leith McPherson Sam Laurence Boxhall Associate Set Designer Jacob Battista Wabash / Lambert Tyler Coppin Associate Costume Designer Dann Barber Lord Wessex / Nol Daniel Frederiksen Associate Costume Designer Janet Hine Lord Tilney / Sir Robert de Lesseps Francis Greenslade Associate Lighting Designer Clare Springett Ralph Peter Houghton Assistant Director Jess Burns Musician Andrew Kroenert Assistant Choreographer Liam McIlwain Henslowe John Leary Fight Captain Michael Wahr Hugh Fennyman Adam Murphy Animal Handler Rebecca Faulkner – We Do Animals Queen Elizabeth I / Nurse Deidre Rubenstein Stage Manager Christine Bennett Ned Alleyn / Frees Chris Ryan Deputy Stage Manager Julia Smith Richard Burbage / Boatman Aaron Tsindos Assistant Stage Manager 1 Meg Richardson Spot Daisy Assistant Stage Manager 2 Brittany Coombs Directorial Secondment Tim Paige Stage Management Secondment VCA Claudia Howarth — Creative Team — Lighting Design Secondment WAAPA David Silvester Director Simon Phillips Rehearsal Photographer Deryk McAlpin Set & Costume Designer Gabriela Tylesova Production Photographer Jeff Busby Lighting Designer Matt Scott

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

Opening Night Partner Originally produced on the West End by Disney Theatrical Productions & Sonia Friedman Productions, directed by Declan Donnellan, and designed by Nick Ormerod Michael Wahr, Adam Murphy and Claire van der Boom with (in background) Aaron Tsindos and Daniel Frederiksen; (Opposite) Laurence Boxhall and Peter Houghton THEATRE, LIKE LOVE, IS A GREAT COLLABORATIVE VENTURE

Playwright reflects on the creative forces that inspired the story of Shakespeare in Love.

hakespeare in Love is Playing with all the conventions of Tom Stoppard’s love letter to Elizabethan Theatre in the theatre seemed theatre. England’s Greatest to me like the story had found its natural Living Playwright's joyful home. It felt like I was writing the play that homage to England’s the film was based on. Just as Tom had Greatest Dead Playwright plundered Shakespeare’s comedies with was an international hit. their romantic confusions and crossdressing SBut the strange thing was: it was a movie. protagonists, I started to plunder other So when the chance came to adapt it for the theatrical sources too. Tom had playfully stage, I couldn’t believe my luck. Not only suggested that Christopher Marlowe was did I have Tom’s wonderful screenplay and responsible for Shakespeare’s inspiration the text of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet so I raided the plot of one of my favourite itself; I also had all the resources of theatre. plays, Cyrano de Bergerac, so that the Director Simon Phillips

‘blocked’ writer uses Marlowe’s literary as much about how the chaos of theatre is skills to assist his love life as well as as responsible for inspiring the play as it is his writing. about Shakespeare’s supposed love affairs. While the love affair drifts off into the ether, Of course the play is a complete confection. the play endures. The contingent chaos of But that seems to be at the very heart of the the theatre, the desperation about money, piece. It is a celebration of invention. That the vanity of actors, the follies of working we can invent ourselves as readily as we can with animals and children comically provide create drama. Theatre is a place where the the circumstances for creation. Anyone limits of ordinary life can be extended or who has worked in the theatre knows that indeed, completely broken. All we have even the best, most solid work seems a to do is be willing to believe in the power catastrophe when you are making it. of invention. We know very little of Nothing seems to fit together. It can only be Shakespeare’s actual life and even less made at all through a strange combination about his writing process, but what is of doubt and wilfully blind belief. Making a clear is that in writing Romeo and Juliet, play, therefore, is rather similar to falling in Shakespeare was inventing a whole new way love. How it all works out is a ‘mystery’, as of writing plays. It is a huge leap forward they keep reminding themselves in the play. in terms of dramatic construction as if Shakespeare was, in some ways, inventing The story is a very odd comedy. The marriage himself. Romeo and Juliet is a new kind of at the end is the wrong one. The lovers writing about romantic love but Tom’s tale is are parted yet this is no tragedy. Luke Arnold and Peter Houghton

Francis Greenslade

Adam Murphy, Chris Ryan, Andrew Kroenert (obscured), Francis Greenslade, Tyler Coppin and Michael Wahr

Tyler Coppin and Michael Wahr

Peter Houghton Claire van der Boom and Michael Wahr ‘Theatre is a place where the limits of ordinary life can be extended or indeed, completely broken. All we have to do is be willing to believe in the power of invention.’

Deidre Rubenstein and Daisy

‘Anyone who has worked in the theatre knows that even the best, most solid work seems a catastrophe when you are making it.’

(Foreground) Daniel Frederiksen and Michael Wahr (background) Laurence Boxhall, Tyler Coppin, Chris Ryan, John Leary, Aaron Tsindos and Peter Houghton; (below from left) Claire van der Boom and Michael Wahr; Peter Houghton, Laurence Boxhall, John Leary, Aaron Tsindos, Tyler Coppin and Chris Ryan

Their affair vanishes just like the play The theatre, like ‘love' in the play, is a great ‘melted into air,’ but the play has left them collaborative venture. In this case the play somehow renewed. And if the play works, is written as much by Marc Norman who it should leave us with a strange, sweet invented the story, Tom Stoppard who melancholy. It’s something that wrote the screenplay we all know, Edmond Shakespeare, more than any other writer, Rostand who inspired the balcony bits and really understood. The theatre as an of course Shakespeare who inspired the 'insubstantial pageant' is perhaps the whole thing. But really this play was as perfect place to understand the mutable much created by Declan Donnellan who energy of life, which is always slipping directed the first production and is made beyond our grasp, because life, like theatre, new, and different, with every cast and is always in motion, always disappearing. every production. I’m thrilled it’s found its It is something we can experience but way so far from where we started. So for can never own. all the writers living and dead, we thank you for making it live again. Peter Houghton (centre) with members of the cast

‘… life, like theatre, is always in motion, always disappearing. It is something we can experience but can never own.’ Laurence Boxhall, Luke Arnold, Claire van der Boom and John Leary; (below) Claire van der Boom with Daisy and Teddy LEE HALL Playwright Lee Hall was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. His screenplay credits include Rocketman (Rocket Pictures), Victoria and Abdul and (Working Title), and War Horse (DreamWorks). His theatre credits include (National Theatre and Broadway), Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre of Scotland/Live Theatre – UK Tour: National Theatre and West End), The Pitmen Painters (Live Theatre/National Theatre, Broadway and West End), and (Live Theatre and West End). His theatrical adaptations include Shakespeare in Love (West End), The Barber of Seville (Bristol Old Vic), The Good Hope (National Theatre), Mother Courage (West End), The Adventures of Pinocchio (Lyric Hammersmith), A Servant to Two Masters (Royal Shakespeare Company/Young Vic) and Mr Puntila and His Man Matti (Almeida Theatre). His opera credits include the English adaptation of Il Pagliacci (English National Opera). Hall’s radio play credits include I Luv You Jimmy Spud, and The Love Letters of Ragie Patel (BBC), The Sorrows of Sandra Saint, Blood Sugar, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Gristle, Child of the Snow and Child of the Rain (from Vargas Llosa). Daniel Frederiksen and Deidre Rubenstein; (opposite from top) Andrew Kroenert; Tyler Coppin and Aaron Tsindos; Aljin Abella and Laurence Boxhall Cast & Creative Team

MICHAEL WAHR War (MTC Cybec Electric); The Good Person of Szechuan Will Shakespeare and The Temple (Malthouse Theatre); Aladdin (Disney Theatrical Australia); Monkey Journey To The West (Bell Shakespeare in Love marks Shakespeare/Theatre of Image); Anything Goes (Opera Michael Wahr’s debut with Australia); La Cage Aux Folles and Anything Goes (The Melbourne Theatre Company. Production Company); Triumph (New Working Group); His recent theatre credits and Strangers in Between (Little Death Productions). include Hamlet, Othello (Bell Screen Credits include Ali's Wedding, I Love You Too, Shakespeare); Dracula (shake & Offspring, Marco Polo, The Dr Blake Mysteries, City stir theatre co); War Horse (National Theatre/Global Homicide, Files: The Man Who Got Away, Creatures); Macbeth (Essential Theatre); Breaking, , Guinevere Jones and Power Rangers Jungle Laika and Wills (She Said Theatre); Hamlet, Wuthering Fury. Aljin was nominated for Best Lead Actor in a Heights (The Australian Shakespeare Company); Comedy at the IAWTV and Raindance Independent As You Like It (Spark Theatre Company); Così (HIT Awards for the web series Hunter n Hornet and is a Productions); The Bridge (La Mama/RandomActs two-time Green Room Award Nominee. Company); Our Country’s Good (The Preferred Play Company). His television credits include Grisse (series regular), City Homicide and Neighbours. A graduate LUKE ARNOLD of the Victorian College of the Arts, Michael is a proud Kit Marlowe member of Equity (MEAA). Luke Arnold has previously worked with Melbourne Theatre Company in CLAIRE VAN DER BOOM Explorations: Macbeth. He has also Viola de Lesseps appeared in Thieving Boy/Like Stars in My Hands (Fly on the Wall/La Claire van der Boom previously Mama Theatre) and Romeo and worked with Melbourne Theatre Juliet (Shakespeare Globe Centre Australia). His television Company in Double Indemnity. credits include The End, Glitch, Black Sails, Salvation, In the US, she appeared in Sam Macgyver, Rush Hour, Never Tear Us Apart, The Lowdown, Shepard’s Heartless (Signature Winners & Losers, City Homicide and Rush. Film credits Theatre Company, Off-Broadway), include Deadman Standing, Broken Hill, Murder in the David Rabe’s An Early History of Fire (The New Group, Dark, Half Magic and The Tunnel. Luke received a TV Week Off-Broadway) and Scott Caan’s The Trouble with Where Logie for Most Outstanding actor in INXS: Never Tear Us We Come From (Falcon Theatre, LA). On home soil, Claire Apart, and was nominated for the AACTA for the same role. was in The Cold Child for Griffin Theatre Company. Film credits include Chronic, Broke, Battlecreek, 5 Flights Up, Love is Now, Red Hill, The Square and the upcoming Palm LAURENCE BOXHALL Beach. Some of her American television credits include Sam Hawaii Five-0, Game of Silence, Constantine, Masters of Sex and The Pacific. On Australian television, Claire Laurence Boxhall made his appeared in Pulse, Rush (Silver Logie nomination), The professional stage debut in Jumpy Underbelly Files, , East West 101, and Sisters (Melbourne Theatre Company/ of War, for which she won the Silver Logie for Most Sydney Theatre Company). A 2018 Outstanding Actress. Claire is a graduate of NIDA. NIDA graduate, he played Vladimir in NIDA’s production of Waiting for Godot (directed by Susanna Dowling), as well as Shaun ALJIN ABELLA in Carking It, Antonio in The Changeling and The Grand John Webster/Mistress Quickly Duke in The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Laurence made his feature film debut in 2015's Spirit of the Game. Aljin Abella is a NIDA graduate Laurence is the Gen Z captain in Nine's popular Talkin' who performs in Australia and 'Bout Your Generation, with Shaun Micallef, Andy Lee internationally. He made his stage and Robyn Butler. He was recently in the award- debut in the Melbourne Theatre winning web series Dave and Theo, from Grannyflat Company/Belvoir/Black Swan Pictures, and is well known for playing the main cast Theatre production of The Sapphires. role of Daniel in the ABC's hilarious Ronny Chieng: Other theatre credits include Moths and Archimedes' International Student. Laurence made his film debut Cast & Creative Team

in Spirit of the Game and his television debut in teen an AFI Award nomination for Best Lead Actor in a series The Worst Year of My Life … Again and was in Television Drama for Bastard Boys, and a Logie Michael Rymer’s critically acclaimed Deadline Gallipoli Nomination for Best New Talent for Stingers. for Foxtel/Matchbox Pictures. FRANCIS GREENSLADE TYLER COPPIN Lord Tilney/ Wabash/Lambert Sir Robert de Lesseps Tyler Coppin has appeared at For Melbourne Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company in Francis Greenslade appeared in Born Yesterday, A Behanding in The Odd Couple, The Madwoman Spokane, His Girl Friday, Ruby of Chaillot, Things We Do for Love, Moon (MTC Education), and Urinetown, Man the Balloon and The 25th Annual Putnam County Blabbermouth, and for MTC Education in Explorations: Spelling Bee (Helpmann Award for Best Supporting Macbeth. His theatre credits include 33 Variations Actor in a Musical). Recent stage productions include for Neil Gooding Productions, Tartuffe, Optimism, Dusty, Little Shop of Horrors, Strictly Ballroom the The Odyssey, Babes in the Wood, Chilling and Killing Musical, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Green Room My Annabel Lee, Competitive Tenderness, and Waking Award). He has performed in many productions over Eve (Playbox/Malthouse Theatre); Navigating (STC); the years at Belvoir Theatre, Nimrod, Griffin, Malthouse, You Got Older (Red Stitch); and The Club, School for Sydney Theatre Company, STCSA, Ensemble Theatre, Scandal, Così, The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, and various independents. For Opera Australia he played Marat/Sade, and Accidental Death of an Anarchist Puck in Baz Luhrmann’s internationally acclaimed (STCSA). Many might recognise him from his regular production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Tyler’s appearances with Shaun Micallef in Mad as Hell, solo show, LyreBird – Tales of Helpmann, has been The Ex-PM, Micallef Tonight, and The Micallef Program, performed throughout Australia and overseas winning and also in The Leftovers, Sammy J & Randy in Ricketts a Scotsman Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Lane, Winners & Losers, Schappelle, It’s a Date, East of Festival. His film credits include Winchester, Hacksaw Everything, City Homicide, All Saints, Fergus McPhail, Ridge, Predestination, The Tender Hook, Sniper, Mad Welcher & Welcher, Marshall Law, Blue Heelers, Max 2, Race the Sun, and Lone Wolf (released in 2020). SeaChange, Pig’s Breakfast, Introducing Garry Petty, Water Rats, Full Frontal, Janus, and Critical Mass. His adaption of Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist DANIEL FREDERIKSEN was produced by STC in 2018 and his entertaining and Lord Wessex/Nol informative book How I Learnt to Act will be published Daniel Frederiksen studied at NIDA by Currency Press later this year. and is a founding member of Red Stitch Theatre Company. His theatre credits include The Lady PETER HOUGHTON in the Van, Abigail’s Party, Dead Ralph Man’s Cell Phone, Rockabye, Peter Houghton has previously Realism, Don Juan in Soho, Cheech or The Chrysler performed on stage for Melbourne Guys Are In Town and Measure for Measure (Melbourne Theatre Company in Three Little Theatre Company); Matilda The Musical (Royal Words, His Girl Friday, The Joy of Shakespeare Company); The Good Person of Szechwan Text, The Colours, The Female of the (Malthouse Theatre); Julius Caesar (Bell Shakespeare); Species, Birthrights, Laughter on Robot VS Art (La Mama); Ruben Guthrie, Fat Boy, The the 23rd Floor, Sweet Bird of Youth, Misalliance and Day Room and The Shape of Things (Red Stitch). Macbeth. Peter also works as a director and playwright Daniel’s television credits include Miss Fisher’s Murder and most recently directed The Architect for MTC. Mysteries; Underbelly ‘Squizzy Taylor’; Underground; His other theatre credits include North by Northwest Bastard Boys; Stingers; Blue Heelers; Mermaids and (Tinderbox Productions); The Beast (Ambassador feature films Vessel; Summer Coda; Closed for Winter; Theatre Group); normal.suburban.planetary.meltdown, Ten Empty and Ghost Rider. Daniel’s accolades include A Commercial Farce, Tartuffe, A View of Concrete, The the Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Eskimo (Malthouse Theatre); Fugitive (Windmill Theatre); Supporting Role in a Musical for Matilda The Musical, The Graduate (Kay & McLean Productions); The Trial Cast & Creative Team

(Malthouse Theatre/Sydney Theatre Company); Travesties Don’t Stare too Much and Dealer’s Choice (Darlinghurst (STC); Samuel Beckett: Endgame (International Beckett Theatre). Television credits include Glitch, The Letdown, Festival); Ruby Moon and Tear from a Glass Eye (Playbox). True Story with Hamish and Andy, Get Krack!n, Upper Peter’s television credits include Utopia, The Wrong Kind Middle Bogan, Timothy, The Elegant Gentleman’s Guide of Black, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Hoges, Molly, to Knife Fighting, Laid, Offspring, Tough Nuts 2, Gallipoli, Wentworth, Howzat! Kerry Packer’s War and Woodley and All Saints. His US television credits include Winners & Losers. His film work includesThe Eye of the The Good Place and No Activity. Selected film credits Storm, Three Dollars, Metal Skin and Mr Nice Guy. Peter include Pirates of the Caribbean V, Red Dog, Where the received Green Room Awards for his work in Endgame Wild Things Are and the Tropfest winning short (11th Hour/Melbourne Festival), The Pitch (Malthouse Lemonade Stand. Theatre) and Misalliance (MTC). ADAM MURPHY ANDREW KROENERT Hugh Fennyman Musical Director/Musician Adam Murphy has appeared in Musical Direction credits; various productions for Melbourne The Rise and Fall of Little Voice Theatre Company, including True (Darlinghurst Theatre Co.); #VAL Minds, His Girl Friday, The Drowsy (DSATM, Chapel Off Chapel); Ugly Chaperone and Urinetown. His Duckling (Melbourne Fringe, Green stage credits include Aladdin and Room Nomination); Carmen, Mary Poppins (Disney Theatrical); Georgy Girl (GG Live or Dead (Oriel Entertainment, The Hayes Theatre); Productions); Dirty Dancing and A Funny Thing 27 Club (Butterfly Club, QLD Tour); Rocking the House Happened on the Way to the Forum (Skyline with Mickey Mouse (Disney Special Events); Tinderella Theatricals); The Graduate (Kay & Mclean); Guys (Chapel Off Chapel); Up Close and Reasonably and Dolls (Donmar Warehouse); Mamma Mia Personal (Amanda Harrison, Butterfly Club). Acting (Dainty Consolidated) and Les Misérables (Cameron Credits; School of Rock; The Musical (GWB); Fiddler on Mackintosh). Adam has enjoyed playing many roles for the Roof, Chitty Chitty, Bang Bang (TML); Dream Lover The Production Company in Guys and Dolls, The Pirates (GFO) Jamie Wellerstein in The Last 5 Years (KWM); of Penzance, Crazy For You, 42nd Street, Little Me, Oklahoma!, Brigadoon, Jesus Christ Superstar, Show Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Pajama Game, Kiss Me Boat (The Production Company); City Of Angels (Life Kate, Annie Get Your Gun, Carousel. Highlights for The Like Company); Company, Pacific Overtures (Watch Court Theatre NZ include Desire Under the Elms, This); Buddy Holly in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story Somone Who'll Watch Over Me, Caesar and Cleopatra, (Showbiz Christchurch, LTPA); Virgins; A Musical Travels With My Aunt and Mother Courage and her Threesome (Echelon, NYMF). Andrew is proudly Children. Screen credits include Sucker, Mychonny represented by Ian White Management and has Moves In, Utopia, House Husbands, City Homicide, been a member of Equity since 2008. Eugenie Sandler, Halifax f.p., Neighbours, Blue Heelers, Shortland Street (NZ) and The Forest. JOHN LEARY Henslowe DEIDRE RUBENSTEIN John Leary is a graduate of Theatre Queen Elizabeth I/Nurse Nepean and a proud member of Deidre Rubenstein has appeared MEAA. Theatre credits include for Melbourne Theatre Company North By Northwest, Private Lives, many times, most recently in His Girl Friday and Realism A Doll’s House, Part 2, Ladies in (Melbourne Theatre Company); Black, North by Northwest, All My Sons, White Guard, The Taming of the Shrew and His Girl Friday, Circle Mirror Julius Caesar (Sydney Theatre Company); Peter Pan, Transformation, Life Without Me, Richard III, August: The Business, The Book of Everything, A Midsummer Osage County, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, The History Boys, Night’s Dream, The Marriage of Figaro and Cloudstreet The Clean House, The World's Wife, Birth Rights, Life x (Belvoir); The Dragon and White Rabbit Red Rabbit 3 and The Seagull. Stage highlights elsewhere are My (Malthouse Theatre); Just Macbeth (Bell Shakespeare); Fair Lady directed by Julie Andrews, Violet, A Murder is The Marriage of Figaro (Queensland Theatre Company); Announced, The Glass Menagerie, Thursday, Loving Cast & Creative Team

Repeating, Three Sisters, Cloud Nine, Candide, Love’s Labours Lost (Sport for Jove); The History Boys Mother Courage, Top Girls, Wild Honey, Les Liaisons (Sydney Opera House); Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins Dangereuses, Broken Glass, The Winter’s Tale and (Watch This, fortyfivedownstairs) and many more. His TV Absurd Person Singular. Deidre created and performed and film credits include; Growing Up Gracefully (ABC); in highly acclaimed solo shows What's a Girl to Do Mary the Making of a Princess (Fremantle Media); and Confidentially Yours, touring nationally and Spin Out (Feature – Sony Pictures) and Crossing Paths internationally. Television work includes Introducing (Feature). A talented comic, singer and writer, Aaron has Gary Petty, Neighbours, G.P, Mercury, Water under the created many successful works including; Unwanted Bridge, City Homicide, MDA, , Blue Friend (Tropfest 2012) Bamboozled (Tropfest 2013 winner Heelers, and Palace of Dreams, which won her an AFI and recipient of best actor award), UnDeadicated Award for Best Actress. Film work includes Force of (Austin Film Festival) and UnImaginary (London World Destiny, Salvation and Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueburger. Wide Comedy Short Film Festival). Aaron is a proud MEAA member. CHRIS RYAN Ned Alleyn/Frees SIMON PHILLIPS Chris Ryan has previously worked Director with Melbourne Theatre Company Simon Phillips began his career in in The Hypocrite. He has also New Zealand before immigrating appeared in Lazarus; A Gentleman’s to Australia in 1984 to take up a Guide to Love and Murder position as lecturer and director (The Production Company); Three at the West Australian Academy Sisters; All My Sons; The Present (Broadway); Cyrano for Performing Arts. He was an de Bergerac; Children of the Sun; Gross Und Klein; Baal; associate director at the Melbourne Theatre Company and Concussion (Sydney Theatre Company); King Kong from 1987 to 1989 before being appointed Artistic (Global Creatures); Thyestes; Measure for Measure; Director of the State Theatre Company of South and The Promise (Belvoir); The Call (Griffin Theatre Australia from 1990 to 1993. He returned to the Company); Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid; Little Match Melbourne Theatre Company as Artistic Director from Girl; ‘Tis Pity She's a Whore; and Elizabeth (Malthouse 2000 to 2011, overseeing the design and construction Theatre); Hamlet and Othello (Bell Shakespeare of the company’s new headquarters and the Southbank Company); and Andre Tonight! (Melbourne Fringe Theatre. His theatre credits range from new works to Festival). His television credits include; Ms Fisher’s contemporary and Shakespearean classics to musicals MODern Murder Mysteries; and Rake. His film credits to opera. He has directed works by most of the great include; The Jammed; and short films; Skeletons; and contemporary writers, as well as the premieres of Numurkah. Chris received a Green Room Award many works by leading Australian writers, including Nomination for Best Performer in both Thyestes and David Williamson, Hannie Rayson, Stephen Sewell, Andre Tonight!. 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This Little Piggy, Macbeth, Volpone and Attempts on Her Commonwealth Games, Kerry was a Production Life (Sydney Theatre Company); Sleeping Beauty and Manager for the River and managed the floating aquatic Schéhérazade (The Australian Ballet); Boomerang and Of creatures and water effects. In 2006, he received the Earth and Sky (Bangarra Dance Theatre); Love Never Dies Green Room Association Technical Achievement Award. (Really Useful Group in Australia, Japan, Germany, US); and First Wives Club (Pre-Broadway world premiere). Gabriela also designed the sets and costumes for the ANDREW HALLSWORTH opening and closing ceremonies of the 2006 Asian Choreographer Games in Doha, Qatar. She collaborated with David Andrew Hallsworth’s credits for McAllister on a picture book of The Sleeping Beauty Melbourne Theatre Company (2017). Gabriela’s designs have won numerous include Twelfth Night, Rupert, Helpmann, Green Room, Australian Production Design Private Lives, Egg, Hamlet, Guild and Sydney Theatre Awards. Gabriela is designing Next to Normal and The Drowsy new ballets for the Finnish National Opera, Hong Kong Chaperone. He will choreograph Ballet and Swan Lake for the National Ballet of Canada. Kiss of the Spider Woman later in the 2019 season. Some other recent theatre credits include Muriel’s MATT SCOTT Wedding the Musical (Sydney Theatre Company/Global Creatures); Assassins (Hayes Theatre Company); Lighting Designer Dream Lover (John Frost & Gilbert Theatrical); Two Matt Scott has lit more than sixty Weddings One Bride, Sydney Opera House – The Opera MTC productions, including Storm and Anything Goes (Opera Australia); Little Shop of Boy, The Lady in the Van, The Horrors (Luckiest Productions/Tinderbox Productions); Architect, An Ideal Husband, Jerry’s Girls and La Cage Aux Folles (The Production Minnie & Liraz, Born Yesterday, Company); Ladies in Black (Queensland Theatre/MTC); The Odd Couple, Jasper Jones, Sweet Charity (Luckiest Productions/Neil Gooding Skylight, The Last Man Standing, The Weir, Jumpy, Productions); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The Mountaintop, Elling, His Girl Friday, Red, Tribes, the Forum and An Officer and A Gentleman (Gordon Clybourne Park, Next to Normal, Blackbird, and August: Frost Organisation). Andrew co-choreographed Osage County. His most recent other work includes Priscilla Queen of the Desert for Broadway, its Parsifal for Victorian Opera; The Dance of Death for worldwide seasons and the recent 10th anniversary Belvoir; The Pearlfishers for State Opera of South Australian celebration tour. Andrew has won three Australia; Oklahoma! and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love Helpmann Awards and two Sydney Theatre Critics for and Murder for The Production Company; Madama ‘Best Choreography in a Musical’. Butterfly for Seattle Opera; Jasper Jones for Queensland Theatre and Madame Butterfly for Opera Australia. Matt has received and been nominated for numerous awards, NIGEL POULTON including a 2016 Green Room Award for The Pearlfishers Fight Director (Opera Australia), a 2005 Helpmann Award for his Nigel Poulton is an internationally lighting on Urinetown (MTC) and a 2003 Helpmann renowned fight director, intimacy Award for The Blue Room (MTC). Matt is a Lecturer in director, weapon and movement Lighting Design at the University of Melbourne (VCA). specialist, stunt performer and actor with expertise in swordplay, KERRY SAXBY firearms, edged weapon use, kinaesthetic movement processes and combat systems. Sound Designer For Melbourne Theatre Company, Nigel was Movement Currently Technical Manager for Director and Assistant Director for Realism, and Fight Lighting and Sound at MTC, Kerry Director for Three Little Words, Jasper Jones, Queen Saxby has worked on more than Lear, Hamlet, Cyrano de Bergerac, Who’s Afraid of 350 MTC productions in the Virginia Woolf? and Macbeth. Other stage credits positions of sound designer, include: The Australian Ballet, The Metropolitan Opera, special effects designer, recording New York City Ballet, Bell Shakespeare, Opera Australia, engineer, lighting technician and realiser. He designed Washington Opera, Circus Oz, Sydney Theatre the lighting for Thom Pain (based on nothing) and Company, Queensland Theatre, Opera Queensland, Songs for Nobodies. His most recent sound design Belvoir, La Boite, Malthouse Theatre, and Kooemba was for Last Man Standing in 2015. During the 2006 Jdarra. Nigel’s film and television credits include: Meet the Wonder Woman of dance

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Occupation 2, Pirates of the Caribbean V, Deadline DANN BARBER Gallipoli, The Water Diviner, The Bourne Legacy, Associate Costume Designer Vikingdom, The Good Wife, Boardwalk Empire and Dann Barber is a theatre designer, Sopranos. Nigel’s awards include a Green Room Award maker and scenic artist. He is a for outstanding contribution to the Melbourne stage. NIDA design graduate and has a degree in Fine Arts – Drawing from LEITH MCPHERSON RMIT. Dann has designed shows in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. Voice & Dialect Coach Some of his recent work includes Barnum: The Circus Leith McPherson has previously Musical (StoreyBoard Entertainment) 33 Variations worked on Melbourne Theatre (Mariners Group and Cameron Lukey); Angels in Company’s productions of America (Cameron Lukey, Dirty Pretty Theatre); The Lady in the Van, Twelfth Rainbow Man (fortyfivedownstairs/Goodnight Darling) Night, Astroman, A Doll’s House, A Tribute of Sorts (Queensland Theatre); Thomas Part 2, An Ideal Husband, Murray and The Upside Down River (Griffin Theatre Macbeth, Noises Off! (with Queensland Theatre), Company); Young and Jackson (fortyfivedownstairs); Melbourne Talam (MTC Education), Born Yesterday, Carmen: Alive or Dead (Hayes Theatre Co); Age of Jasper Jones, Skylight, Double Indemnity, Peddling Bones (La Mama); and The Coronation of Poppea (MTC Education), North by Northwest, Jumpy, I’ll Eat (Lyric Opera); Klutz: A tragic comedy (Brisbane You Last, Private Lives, Other Desert Cities, Hamlet, Festival); and A Midsummer Nights Dream (La Boite Richard III, All About My Mother, Dead Man’s Cell Theatre Company). Dann was Associate Costume Phone, Boston Marriage, Madagascar, The Swimming Designer for Gabriela Tylesova for Sleeping Beauty Club, The Drowsy Chaperone, August: Osage County, (Australian Ballet) and is thrilled to be working Explorations: A Streetcar Named Desire (MTC alongside her for Shakespeare in Love. Education), Rockabye, Songs for Nobodies, Ninety, and The Dame on the Ten Dollar Note. Leith is voice and dialect coach for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child JANET HINE (Australia) and is Head of Voice and Movement for the Associate Costume Designer Theatre Department at the VCA. Janet Hine’s varied career has her styling rock stars, film stars, JACOB BATTISTA princes and presidents. Stylist for the ARIA awards across eight Associate Set Designer years, working with Kylie, Tina Jacob Battista is a Melbourne Arena, Kelly Rowland, Christine based theatre designer and Anu, Jason Derulo, Gwen Stefani and Savage Garden. practitioner. He is currently a Janet’s world stage design experiences – Sydney 2000 CAD Drafter with the Melbourne Paralympic Games; Manchester, Glasgow & Gold Coast Theatre Company. Jacob Commonwealth Games; 2006 Asian & 2011 Arab Games completed a Bachelor of Ceremonies Qatar. Television design credits include So Production at the VCA. Some of his design credits You Think You Can Dance. Janet’s Theatrical credits Meet the Wonder Woman of dance include, Hand to God, You’re a Good Man Charlie include Design Associate/Supervisor for Disney’s Brown and Bad Jews (Vass Theatre Group); Rust and Frozen and Aladdin; Grease; Little Shop of Horrors; Bone (La Mama); True West (Matchstick); Songs for Chicago; Oliver; We Will Rock You; Dirty Dancing; 31 AUGUST – 10 SEPTEMBER | Arts Centre Melbourne a New World (Blue Saint); MEMBER (Fairly Lucid); Spamalot and High School Musical. She has worked Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune (Collette as the Costume Designer for Man From Snowy River; Mann/fortyfivedownstairs);The Lonely Wolf (Dirty Sweet Charity; The Full Monty; Fame; Saturday Night Under 30? Book D reserve tickets from $75* Pretty Theatre/MTC NEON); Therese Raquin (Dirty Fever; Hairspray and the Broadway and West End Pretty Theatre); Carrie The Musical (Ghost Light); seasons of Burn the Floor and Barry Humphries’ Eat LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, Jumpers for Goalposts, Belleville Pray Laugh. Janet is honoured to be working with the *Applies to all performances from 31 August – 10 September 2019, subject to availability. and Out of the Water (Red Stitch). Jacob was a visionary Gabriela Tylesova. recipient of a Besen Family Scholarship at the Malthouse in 2016 working with Marg Horwell on Edward II and is also a recipient of an Australia Council ArtStart Grant. Our music therapy research will improve the lives of millions living with dementia.

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CLARE SPRINGETT MARC NORMAN Associate Lighting Designer Original Screenplay Shakespeare in Love is Clare Films include Shakespeare in Love (Academy Awards Springett’s second production for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture, two with Melbourne Theatre Company Golden Globes and Silver Bear for Outstanding Single along with Gloria (MTC 2018). Achievement at the 49th Berlin International Film Her other theatre credits include Festival), Cutthroat Island, The Aviator, The Killer Elite, Dance Nation, Love Song, The Breakout, Zandy's Bride and Oklahoma Crude. Marc Antipodes, The Way Out, Rules for Living, The River, Norman is also the author of two novels, Fool's Errand You Got Older, The Village Bike, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, Wet and Bike Riding in Los Angeles, and What Happens House, Jumpers for Goalposts, Eurydice (Green Room Next?: A History of American Screenwriting. Award Nomination), Bellville, 4000 Miles, Midsummer (A Play With Songs/Red Stitch). Freelance design credits include Midsummer Mendelssohn Gala (Flinders TOM STOPPARD Quartet), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Francis Original Screenplay Greenslade/AP Studios), I Carry Your Heart (2017 Fringe Plays include The Hard Problem, The Real Inspector Festival), Shirley Valentine and Always Patsy Cline (HIT Hound, After Magritte, Jumpers, Travesties, Every Good Productions), The Inaugural Annual Dance (True North Boy Deserves Favour (with André Previn), Dirty Linen, 2016). Clare is currently the Resident Lighting Designer New-Found-Land Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth, for Red Stitch Actors Theatre. Night and Day, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink, The Invention of Love, The Coast of Utopia JESS BURNS and Rock’n’Roll. Adaptations include On the Razzle (Nestroy) and Rough Crossing (Molnar). Tom’s most Assistant Director recent work for TV was Parades End; for radio Darkside Jess Burns has had a long (with Pink Floyd); and for film, Anna Karenina. His film association with Melbourne Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead won the Venice Theatre Company as Stage FIlm Festival Prix d’Or, and Shakespeare in Love won Manager on productions including an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Macbeth, Skylight, North by Best Picture. Northwest, Jumpy, Pennsylvania Avenue, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Crucible, Red, Constellations, Queen Lear, Music, The Importance of Being Earnest, Hamlet, Next to Normal, A Behanding in Spokane, All About My Mother, The Grenade, Rockabye, Moonlight and Magnolias, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Hypocrite, Love Song, The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Ghost Writer, The Female of the Species, Hitchcock Blonde, Two Brothers, Coup d’Etat and Life x 3. Productions for other companies include The Lion King (Disney Productions); The Producers (Gordon Frost Organisation), The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Malcolm C. Cooke & Associates); Muriel’s Wedding: The Musical (Sydney Theatre Company/ Global Creatures). Jess has been Associate Director for North by Northwest (TRB/KMCB Productions); Ladies in Black (Queensland Theatre) and The Beast (Ambassador Theatre Group).

No animals are harmed in this production. Their welfare and wellbeing is paramount. Additional lighting equipment provided by PRG Australia, a proud Season Partner of MTC. Additional scenic art by Russell Carey. Theatrical drapes supplied and manufactured by Theatre Star. Coming up

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GOLDEN SHIELD BLACK IS THE NEW WHITE by Anchuli Felicia King by Nakkiah Lui A stunning new legal drama from Following two sell-out seasons a trail-blazer of contemporary theatre, at STC, this new Australian comedy Anchuli Felicia King. arrives in Melbourne. 12 AUGUST—14 SEPTEMBER 2 OCTOBER — 6 NOVEMBER

PHOTOGRAPH 51 book by Terrence McNally, music by by Anna Ziegler John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, based on the novel by Manuel Puig Nadine Garner returns to the Musical theatre legend Caroline O'Connor MTC stage in this moving West End hit, stars in this provocative tale of directed by Pamela Rabe. love and imagination. 1 NOVEMBER— 14 DECEMBER 18 NOVEMBER — 28 DECEMBER

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Former MTC Artistic Director Simon Phillips reflects on Southbank Theatre and his favourite memories.

I’m often asked in interviews if I have a favourite production – one that holds a special place in my heart – and it’s a question I’ve always found impossible to answer: whichever production you’re working on at the time always feels like your favourite. But actually, there’s no doubt at all that Southbank Theatre is my favourite production; it obsessively occupied my heart and mind for so many years of planning, as we all strove to create the best possible performing space to surprise, challenge and delight generations of theatre-goers. Ten years later it remains my proudest achievement.

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