Stage veteran John Bell says 'uninspired' governments have 'wilfully neglected' years of opportunity to film theatre for television and Australia is now paying the price.
Some existential questions Shakespeare examines can be perennially revisited. "'To be or not to be' means something different when you're 20 than 30, and something else again at 60," Bell says. "I reflect on what the plays have meant to me, how my relationship to them has changed as I have changed. But my commentary is really just to link the selections together."
What most distresses Bell about the current pandemic is the promising young performers whose careers face indefinite postponement. He urges them to stay optimistic, to keep inventing new ways of reaching audiences. He wishes Australia had a tradition of recording live performance like that in Britain – he points to the large back catalogue of recorded productions streamed by the RSC, National Theatre and the Globe, some of them "almost as good as being there".The Taming of the Shrew
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