From War & Peace to Hanging Rock

Matthew Lutton’s first season as Malthouse AD encourages audiences to rethink the familiar.
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Anthony Weigh’s retelling of Edward II from the Malthouse 2016 season.

Following his appointment as Artistic Director of the Malthouse Theatre Company in early July (after several months spent as Acting AD following Marion Potts’ departure in March) Matthew Lutton has hit the ground running.

Last night he unveiled the company’s 2016 season, and while it still bears some of Potts’ influence, it’s very much Lutton’s own season, he told ArtsHub.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts