New Australian voices: on stage, on page, on film, online.
THE VOICES PROJECT brings together the best of new monologue writing from atyp’s Fresh Ink emerging playwright program, and presents it on stage, on page, on film and online, giving voice to a new generation of Australian writers, theatremakers, filmmakers and performers.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
A fresh take on Shakespeare's best known words
Take ten young actors, 9 different locations, one rainy day and the most famous monologue of them all and you have TO BE, a fresh take on Shakespeare’s best known words.
On the 448th birthday of William Shakespeare, here’s 10 TO BEs from Sydney.
TO BE on Bardbox
BardBox brings together a selection of the best and most interesting examples of original Shakespeare-related videos available on YouTube and other platforms. It’s curated by Dr Luke McKerna, Lead Curator, Moving Image at The British Library
And TO BE is on it!
I love Shakespeare.
I love his plays, his characters, his extraordinary use of language, his huge, big-hearted humanity, his terrifyingly accurate insight into what makes us tick, and, and, and …
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd.
John Bell on performing Hamlet
John Bell, leading Shakespearean actor, director and founder of Bell Shakespeare, on performing Hamlet.
Laurence Olivier as Hamlet (1948)
All of Sydney is a stage...
Sarah Woods is an actor and leading Shakespeare tutor. She accompanied and supported the actors on the day’s shoot for TO BE. Here she writes of her passion for Shakespeare and her experience of working with the young cast and crew of TO BE. Sarah was also acting coach throughout the shoot of BOOT and BAT EYES.
