The Melbourne Theatre Company is a theatre company based in

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

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, Australia. Founded in 1953 as the Union Theatre Repertory Company at the Union Theatre at the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb no ...

, it is the oldest professional

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in Australia. The company's

Southbank Theatre Southbank Theatre is a performing arts venue located in the Southbank region of Melbourne, Victoria. It is the principal home of the Melbourne Theatre Company. The theatre was designed by ARM Architecture (Ashton Raggatt McDougall), and opened ...

houses the 500-seat Sumner and the 150-seat Lawler, and the company also performs in the

Arts Centre Melbourne Arts Centre Melbourne, originally known as the Victorian Arts Centre and briefly called the Arts Centre, is a performing arts centre consisting of a complex of theatres and concert halls in the Melbourne Arts Precinct, located in the central ...

's Fairfax Studio and Playhouse, all located in Melbourne's Arts Precinct in Southbank. Considered Victoria's state theatre company, it formally comes under the auspices of the University of Melbourne. As of 2013 it offered a Mainstage Season of ten to twelve plays each year, as well as education, family and creative development activities, and reported having a subscriber base of approximately 20,000 people and played to a around quarter of a million people annually.

History

The Melbourne Theatre Company was founded in 1953 by John Sumner as the Union Theatre Repertory Company, based at the Union Theatre of the

's Student Union building. Sumner's original idea was to present a season of plays over those months when the Union Theatre was not being used by student drama societies. It was Australia's first professional repertory theatre, presenting a new play every two weeks during the season. Later, that became three weekly repertory. The first play,

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's '' Colombe'', opened on 31 August 1953, starring

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(who was later to have considerable success on

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), George Fairfax and Alex Scott. Over the years, Melbourne Theatre Company has championed Australian writing, introducing the works of writers such as

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, Patrick White,

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, Alexander Buzo,

David Williamson David Keith Williamson AO (born 24 February 1942) is an Australian dramatist and playwright. He has also written screenplays and teleplays. Early life David Williamson was born in Melbourne, Victoria, on 24 February 1942, and was brought ...

John Romeril John Henry Romeril (born 1945) is an Australian playwright and teacher. He has written around 60 plays for theatre, film, radio, and television, and is known for his 1975 play ''The Floating World''. Early life and education John Henry Romeril ...

Jim McNeil James Thomas McNeil (23 January 1935 – 16 May 1982) was an Australian award-winning playwright. While serving a 17-year sentence in Parramatta Correctional Centre for armed robbery and shooting a police officer, McNeil began writing plays. W ...

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, John Powers,

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Ron Elisha Ron Elisha (born 1951) is an Israeli-born Australian playwright, writer and general practitioner. Born in Jerusalem Ron Elisha's family moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1953. In 1975 he graduated in Medicine from Melbourne University The Un ...

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, Janis Bolodis,

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, Jack Davis,

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and

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(to mention only a few) to mainstream Melbourne audiences. The first Australian play produced by the company, ''

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'' by

Ray Lawler Raymond Evenor Lawler (born 23 May 1921) is an Australian actor, dramatist, and theatre producer and director. His most notable play was his tenth, '' Summer of the Seventeenth Doll'' (1953), which had its premiere in Melbourne in 1955. The ...

, in 1955 was quickly recognised as an Australian classic. Lawler had by that time succeeded Sumner as Director of the company, taking it through the 1955 and 1956 seasons. When Lawler left to perform ''The Doll'' in London, he handed the directorship to Wal Cherry, who oversaw the company from 1956 until 1959. Cherry's experimental and daring approach to theatre did much to broaden the tastes of Melbourne theatre-goers, though the company suffered at the box-office. In 1959, John Sumner returned and subsequently steered the company through twenty-eight years of growth, watching it become, by the time he retired in 1987, the largest theatre company in Australia. Since then the company has had three artistic directors:

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(1987–1999), who steered MTC through the financially troublesome period of the late 1980s and 1990s; Simon Phillips, who was Artistic Director from 2000-2011; and Brett Sheehy from 2012.

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, and Aidan Fennessy managed the 2012 season in the interim between Phillips and Sheehy. Fennessy was Associate Director for some time. The Melbourne Theatre Company has performed in many Melbourne venues in its history, including the

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, the

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, St Martins Theatre, the Merlyn and Beckett Theatres at the

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, the Playhouse and Fairfax Studio of the

, the

Comedy Theatre The Harold Pinter Theatre, known as the Comedy Theatre until 2011,

and the Princess Theatre.

Artistic Directors

*1953-1955 John Sumner *1955-1956

*1956-1959 Wal Cherry *1959-1987 John Sumner *1959-1987 John Sumner *1987-1999

*2000-2011 Simon Phillips *2012

, Aidan Fennessy *2013-2022 Brett Sheehy *2023-

Anne-Louise Sarks Anne-Louise Sarks is an Australian theatre director, writer and actor. She has been the Artistic Director of the Melbourne Theatre Company since October 2021. Her partner is journalist Sean Kelly. Career Studies and early work Sarks studied ...

Awards and nominations

Helpmann Awards

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Helpmann Award for Best Play The Helpmann Award for Best Play is a theatre award, presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) at the annual Helpmann Awards since 2001. The award is for a production of a play, which may be a new work or a revival of an existing work. This ...

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Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play The Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play is a theatre award, presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) at the annual Helpmann Awards since 2001. In the following list winners are listed first and marked in gold, in boldface, and the ...

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Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Play The Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Play is an award presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) (the trade name for the Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA)), an employers' organisation which serves as the peak body in ...

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Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play The Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play is an award presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) (the trade name for the Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA)), an employers' organisation which serves as the peak body ...

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Helpmann Award for Best Musical The Helpmann Award for Best Musical is a musical theatre award, presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) at the annual Helpmann Awards since 2001. The award is for a production in Australia, and is open to both new musicals and revivals. Th ...

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Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play The Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play is a theatre award, presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) at the annual Helpmann Awards since 2003. In the following list, winners are listed first and marked in gold, ...

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, , - , rowspan="3", 2006 , Simon Phillips – ''King Lear'' (Melbourne Theatre Company) , Best Direction in a PLay , , rowspan="3", , - , Hamish Michael – ''Two Brothers'' (Melbourne Theatre Company & Sydney Theatre Company) , Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play , , - , ''

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– ''

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– ''The Mountaintop'' (Melbourne Theatre Company) , Best Female Actor in a Play , , rowspan="2", , - ,

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– ''The Beast (Melbourne'' Theatre Company) , Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play , , - , rowspan="3", 2015 , Clare Watson – ''What Rhymes with Cars and Girls'' (Melbourne Theatre Company) , Best Direction of a Play , , rowspan="3", , - ,

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– ''Birdland'' (Melbourne Theatre Company) , Best Male Actor in a Play , , - ,

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– ''The Distance'' (Melbourne Theatre Company) , Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play , , - , rowspan="2",

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– ''John'' (Melbourne Theatre Company) , Best Female Actor in a Play , , - , rowspan="7",

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– ''The Children'' – (Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company) , rowspan="2", Best Female Actor in a Play , , - ,

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– ''The Children'' – (Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company) , , - , John Bell – ''The Father'' (Sydney Theatre Company and Melbourne Theatre Company) , Best Male Actor in a Play , , - , Jane Montgomery-Griffiths – ''Macbeth'' (Melbourne Theatre Company) , Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play , , - ,

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– '' The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'' (National Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company and Arts Centre Melbourne) , Best Scenic Design , , - , rowspan="3",

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, Melita Jurisic – ''Arbus & West'' (Melbourne Theatre Company) , Best Female Actor in a Play , , rowspan="3", , - , Zoe Terakes – '' A View from the Bridge'' (Melbourne Theatre Company) , Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play , , - ,

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– ''

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'' (Melbourne Theatre Company) , Helpmann Award for Best Original Score ,

References

Bibliography

* Geoffrey Hutton (1975). "It won't last a week!": the first twenty years of the Melbourne Theatre Company. Melbourne: Macmillan. . * Julian Meyrick, ed. (2004). The Drama Continues: MTC the first fifty years 1953–2003. Southbank: Melbourne Theatre Company. .

External links

* {{authority control 1953 establishments in Australia Theatre companies in Australia Landmarks in Melbourne Theatre in Melbourne Organisations based in Melbourne