The enduring themes of Shakespeare’s play ring through with both pathos and ab-clenching humour in this quirky adaptation.
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Set in the turbulent early Roman Republic the play follows the glorious rise of Coriolanus, a terrifying war machine on the battlefield.
This new production of Henry 5 shows director Marion Potts is a master of her art.
Robert Menzies is outstanding as a physically feeble yet emotionally volatile Lear.
I took my young son Heathcliff to the show, and his perspective helped me see it through a kid’s eyes.
Shakespeare will be all but absent at Australian theatres in 2024 – but we need to embrace the complexities of the canon, not shy away from it.
Our new report asks if achieving environmental sustainability should be a key goal for all Australian performing arts companies.
After two years of COVID-delay, Bell Shakespeare’s Hamlet reflects both personal and global tragedies.
The founder of the Bell Shakespeare Company has written a book gleaning leadership wisdom from the bard. But figures such as Richard III and Julius Caesar are hardly ones to emulate.
Mulvany’s performance reminds us that Shakespeare still has the power to reveal the true monsters of our culture.
Othello is one of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies. But in the light of 21st-century understandings of abuse, the play is recast as a textbook case of domestic terrorism.
Hamlet is a play that haunts itself. Its saturation into cultural consciousness means that watching a performance is inevitably a process of past ghosts and past echoes framing the current performance.
Bell Shakespeare’s new production of William Shakespeare’s Henry V – which opened in Canberra on June 14 – interrogates the complexities of war through a unique framing device: its scenes are played out…
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