Melbourne Theatre Company

The Cybec Foundation

In 2003 the Foundation paid for MTC to commission Melbourne playwright Joanna Murray-Smith to write a new play, to be performed by the Company. This play, with the title Ninety, was finally performed, with great success, in the 2009 season.

2003

Joanna Murray-Smith Ninety

In 2005 MTC introduced the Hard Lines play development program, which was an extension of an earlier affiliate writers scheme. In the following years this program supported a number of would-be playwrights, and provided public readings of their works.

In 2006 the Foundation agreed to support an extension of this under which one new play would be given a studio production each year. The following plays have been produced under this program:

Jane Bodie's play A Single Act won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award in 2007.

	2006	Jane Bodie A Single Act
	2007	Ross Mueller The Ghost Writer
	2008	Matt Cameron Poor Boy
	2008	Paul Galloway Realism Poor Boy and Realism were both performed early in 2009 in the new MTC Ray Lawler Theatre

Jane Bodie

A Single Act 2006

Cybec Readings: In 2009 The Foundation agreed to replace the Hard Lines Program with the Cybec Readings, under which a number of new plays are read in public each year. The initial series have been very successful, and have attracted good audiences.

The authors and directors of these plays have been:

	2009	Nicki Bloom Tender (dir: Sam Strong)
		Ian Wilding The Water Carriers (dir: Tom Gutteridge)
		Robert Reid The Joy of Text (dir: Aiden Fennessy)
		Elise Hearst The Sea Project (dir: Sam Strong)
		Amelia Roper Hong Kong Dinosaur (dir: Naomi Edwards)
		Declan Greene Pretty Baby (dir: David Mence)

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