On Saturday 11th January 2020 Opera Australia launched their new season of CARMEN one of the best known operas in the western world. Bizet’s CARMEN was adapted from a book of the same name written 30 years before by French …
This was a .great night of theatre brought to us by two of Australia’s theatrical legends.
The scenario. In 1944 at the Hotel Maurice, the Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling and the German General Dietrich von Cholitz meet in a life …
This year’s Bell Shakespeare Company season began with the ribald farce THE MISER marking its 29th year. At the opening night after party Gill Perkins, Executive Director of Bell Shakespeare, outlined an ambitious program for this year and the next. …
Featured image- John Bell and John Gaden in DIPLOMACY at the Ensemble Theatre. Pic Prudence Upton.
Paris, August 25th, 1944. As the Allied Forces move closer to the city, Hitler has decided, in his ever-increasing delusional state, that if Germany …
BRIGHT STAR by John Bell and Simon Tedeschi
presented in association with Music Viva Australia will play at Riverside Theatres in November, for one night only. It will be a feast of Romantic poetry and music featuring the works of …
Bell Shakespeare has opened its 2015 season and its 25th anniversary year with AS YOU LIKE IT. As John Bell is retiring from the company he so successfully started in 1990, this production will be the last one co-directed with …
Hands up those who remember the iconic incredibly popular TV series Monkey of the 1970’s ?
Theatre of Image under the brilliantly inspired direction of Kim Carpenter, in combination with legendary John Bell of Bell Shakespeare and in collaboration with …
THE MAGIC CHICKEN featured a great plot with perfectly choreographed mime which easily kept every child mesmerised from start to finish. Constant giggles and laughter also came from the adults.
The play is set in a fun ‘Seussian’ kitchen and …
This can be called one of Shakespeare’s ‘problem plays’ as it is full of both intense psychological drama yet also is lyrical, rustic and has a romantic happy ending. In some ways it is almost in effect two separate plays, …