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unusual facts about Melbourne Theatre Company



Googie Withers

Withers starred in a number of stage plays, including Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea, Desire of the Moth, The First 400 Years (with Keith Michell), Beekman Place (for which she also designed the set), The Kingfisher, Stardust, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Wilde's An Ideal Husband for the Melbourne Theatre Company; both productions toured Australia.

Julia Harari

Among others, Julia Harari has trained with Melbourne Theatre Company, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Victorian College of the Arts and The Australian Film and Television Academy.

Ray Lawler

In 1972, he visited Australia for the Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of The Man Who Shot the Albatross, a version of the Governor Bligh story; and then in 1975 returned to settle in Australia as associate director of the Melbourne Theatre Company, with an agreement to complete a trilogy based on Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.

Timothy James Webb

Some of his works belong to the collections of Sony/CBS in Melbourne, of the Australian Gallery of Sport and Olympic Museum, of the Melbourne Theatre Company, of the Melbourne City Council, of Arnon Milchan and of the collections of other notable families in Australia, in the United States, in the United Kingdom, in Ireland, Sweden and in Germany.


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Nicholas Papademetriou

In 2010 he created the role of Nikos Nomikos in the world premiere of "The Swimming Club" by Hannie Rayson for Melbourne Theatre Company.