Bell Shakespeare 2012
It’s all about obsession…
Bell Shakespeare’s 2012 season features two neglected classics and one of Shakespeare’s great tragedies.
Associate Artistic Director Peter Evans opens the season directing Macbeth and will fulfill a long awaited ambition to collaborate with Dan Spielman in the title role. Kate Mulvany returns as Lady Macbeth after this year’s Julius Caesar. This season’s Macbeth reveals what the lure of power can do to a man and the devastation it can wreak on a marriage and a nation.
Sydney audiences will experience the passion and darkness of John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi directed by John Bell. For only the second time in Bell Shakespeare’s history John will work with his daughter Lucy Bell, on this new adaptation by Hugh Colman and Ailsa Piper.
The final production for 2012 sees Lee Lewis direct a new translation from Justin Fleming of Molière’s engaging romp The School for Wives. Touring to 26 venues nationally, this comedic train wreck of a love story tangles innocence with arrogance and the other way around.
For Melbourne Season Packages audiences, Bell Shakespeare joins forces with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in a concert of the narrative and dramatic highlights of Romeo And Juliet conducted by Benjamin Northey and directed by John Bell.
Sydney season features all three plays. Melbourne and Canberra seasons feature Macbeth and The School for Wives.
Images: Dan Spielman and Kate Mulvany. Lucy Bell.
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