A season for and about contemporary Australia: the MTC have just announced 12 bold works for 2023.
The Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC) have today announced their 2023 program, marking Artistic Director and Co-CEO Anne-Louise Sarks’ inaugural season for the Company. Ushering in a new artistic era for Victoria’s state theatre company, they’re featuring five world premieres of new Australian work, as well as a world-first staging of two plays in one evening.
With performances from Nikki Shiels (The Picture of Dorian Gray), comedian Anne Edmonds and the Melbourne Theatre Company debut of Judith Lucy, the MTC’s 2023 season is set to change, challenge, influence and entertain.
Check out Melbourne’s latest stage shows and theatrical events here.
In announcing the program, Anne-Louise Sarks said “the 2023 season offers new perspectives – through stories that haven’t been heard before and familiar stories told in new ways. We are boldly engaging in new conversations about theatre, and who we are, like never before.”
Anne-Louise Sarks added, “creating rich and compelling theatre only comes when you have different voices challenging each other in a creative process.
“This new season marks so much more than a program of 12 exciting productions, we’re also taking a look at how we make theatre and who we have in the room.”
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MTC’s 2023 season
- Sunday by Anthony Weigh, dir. Sarah Goodes – opens Friday January 20
- Prima Facie by Suzie Miller, dir Lee Lewis – opens Saturday February 11
- Bernhardt/Hamlet by Theresa Rebeck – opens Thursday March 9
- Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, dir. Petra Kalive – opens Friday May 5
- I Wanna Be Yours by Zia Ahmed, dir. Tasnim Hossain – opens Monday May 15
- Jacky by Declan Furber Gillick, dir. Mark Wilson – opens Saturday May 27
- Is God Is by Aleshea Harris, dir. Zindzi Okenyo and Shari Sebbens – opens Friday June 23
- Bloom by Tom Gleisner and Katie Weston, dir. Dean Bryant – opens Saturday July 22
- What If If Only and Escaped Alone by Caryl Churchill, dir. Anne-Louise Sarks – opens Friday August 11
- My Sister Jill by Patricia Cornelius, dir. Susie Dee – opens Thursday September 28
- Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill by Lanie Robertson, dir. Mitchell Butel – opens Tuesday October 24
- A Very Jewish Christmas Carol by Elise Esther Hearst and Phillip Kavanagh, dir. Sarah Giles – opens Saturday November 18
Check out their program in full by heading to their website here.
