The Voices Project

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.

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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor

 

10 actors. 1 city. 1 city. And the most famous monologue of them all.

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. 

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 …

Sarah Woods, All of Sydney is a stage

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.


Emma talks about her involvement in 3 elements of The Voices Project, and on shooting Shakespeare on the hoof around Sydney.

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