MTC's new home comes closer
After years of work and planning, the Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC) can look forward to a new 500-seat theatre in the middle of the Southbank Arts Precinct.
With financial support from the Victorian Government, the University and the generosity of some private benefactors, plans for the new theatre were announced by Arts Minister Mary Delahunty on 20 April 2005.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Glyn Davis said it has long been a desire of the University to provide the MTC – a semi-autonomous department of the University – with a world-class performing space of its own.
The University’s link with MTC goes back half a century to the establishment of a full-time professional theatre company, the Union Repertory Theatre Company, in 1953 at the Union Theatre in the Union House.
The Union Repertory Theatre Company evolved into the MTC, which moved off campus in 1965, but retained its links with the University through its Board of Management, which reports to the University of Melbourne Council.
The facility will stand alongside a new 1000-seat recital hall and will be open by 2008.
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