Matt Scholten

  • Two Helpmann Award nominations for Mother

  • Mother wins Drama Victoria Award

    If Theatre has won the 2015 Best Performance by a Theatre Company for Mother by Daniel Keene starring Noni Hazlehurst. The award is presented to the theatre company by Drama Victoria, which has selected the production from the 2015 Playlist for Theatre Studies. On behalf of the team: Noni, Ainsley Kerr, Darius Kedros, Kat Chan…

  • ADSA Conference 2016

    I have accepted an invitation to be one of the Keynote Speakers at the 2016 ADSA Conference being held at the University of Southern Queensland in June 2016. The conference is centred on the theme of Resilience. ADSA is the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies, the peak academic association promoting the study…

  • Audience Feedback

    Some of the audience responses to the production of Mother: Incredible acting, the physicality was amazing. The whole audience will go away thinking about this. Such a beautiful and tormented soul. Noni is such a brilliant actor. It really tugged at my heartstrings and made me realise how blessed we are in our lives. Thank…

  • VCE Theatre Studies student Q&A

    VCE Theatre Studies student Q&A

    Mother is on the VCE Theatre Studies Playlist. We are meeting with students all over the state on the tour who may be writing about it in their exams. Here are some questions from teacher Liz Bastian at Billanook College posed to me about Mother on behalf of her students who saw the show at…

  • Mother on tour

    Mother on tour

    After three years of planning and working on the production, Mother made its debut last month at the Gasworks Arts Park and is now on tour all over Victoria and Tasmania. The team of designers (Kat Chan on set, props and costumes Tom Willis on lights and Darius Kedros on sound) along with Ainsley Kerr…