OUR COMPANY

Malthouse Theatre engages with Australia’s cultural and imaginative life.

Malthouse Theatre produces and presents Australian contemporary theatre, a broadly defined program of work conceived and created in collaboration with writers, directors, designers, choreographers, audio artists and performers – a contemporary theatre where the combined possibilities of all the theatre arts are offered centre stage.

Alive to the changing dynamics of a theatre in contest with contemporary life and the contemporary imagination, we undertake this challenge as an offering to the past, a witnessing of the present and as a manifestation of our hopes and fears for the future.

To achieve this, we acknowledge that:

Theatre is a collaborative act apprehended through all of the senses;

Theatre is contradictory in its power to simultaneously amuse and provoke, clarify and disorient;

Theatre is by definition dangerous, often revealing what is yet to be acknowledged and penetrating the farthest reaches of the imagination;

Theatre is a collective experience in real time;

Theatre is inherently and profoundly sexual;

Theatre is of itself political, binding us into all history;

Theatre refuses to beg for permission to squarely face the contemporary.