Australia’s leading theatre company, MTC, will have a new and permanent home at Southbank. The venue will be purpose-built to suit the requirements of the MTC and equipped with state of the art theatre facilities, including a 14 metre wide proscenium, orchestra pit with forestage lift, fully de-mountable forestage, 20 metre height to fly tower grid and adjustable Juliet balconies each side of the stage. The fly tower has capacity to run 60 fly batten sets on electric winches.

The auditorium is acoustically isolated by a 200mm thick concrete envelope to walls and ceilings, which is supported by a braced steel frame. Steel trusses are used to support the roof slab over the 23 metre span of the auditorium and to support the fly tower walls and winch beams where they span over the stage.

The site is under-laid by weak soil strata, including Coode Island Silts, hence the necessity for piled foundations throughout.

The MTC theatre will be constructed in a joint development with the Melbourne Recital Centre’s Dame Elizabeth Murdoch Hall, by Major Projects Victoria. Construction is underway.

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