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| Queensland Theatre Company QTC vision To serve a wide range of audiences by producing theatre that embraces the heritage works as well as the new and evolving by nurturing and developing artists and their work by exploring and promoting the artform and by maintaining the highest standards in all of the these endeavours. QTC is Queensland's State Theatre Company. Its inaugural production of The Royal Hunt of the Sun opened on 1 October, 1969 in the SGIO (Suncorp) Theatre. QTC was then established by an act of Parliament in 1970. During its three decades of operation the Company has presented more than 280 plays from the classic, contemporary, Australian and international repertoire. The Year 2000 will celebrate 30 years of presenting musicals, dramas, world premieres, classics, as well as developmental programs in writing and skills-based training to audiences and theatre artists throughout Queensland and Australia. In 1999 QTC will present 7 mainstage shows covering everything from Sophocles to the latest local writing, via Shakespeare, a 20th Century American classic and a recent Broadway hit. The season includes two world premieres of Queensland plays. The company also serves the state through Touring, Education and Writing programs and its Website. QTC's Education Unit began in 1971. Regular projects like Theatre Residency Week (an intensive week long workshop for students in Years 11 and 12) and QTC's Young Playwrights' Award have become regular fixtures in the school year. Recent QTC Eduation Unit productions include Wesley Enoch's Blacked Up - an investigation into indigenous representation in theatre and film - and MoDD-Madame Butterfly - a major collaboration with Opera Queensland, Queensland Ballet, Queensland Symphony Orchestra and puppeteer, Peter Wilson which radically reinterpreted the story of Madame Butterfly. With the recent appointment of Michael Gow, QTC becomes the first Australian state theatre company to have as its Artistic Director an artist known primarily as a writer. The 1999 program includes regular playreadings of scripts in development; a six-week playwrighting Masterclass; the Courier Mail/QTC George Landen Dann Playwrighting Award; an Affiliate Writers program, as well as play commissions and development. Angela Betzien - this year's winner of the Landen Dann Award - is currently Writer-in-Residence. 1999 Season:
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