This is the company’s first program under the sole Artistic Directorship of Peter Evans.
The legendary tale of Romeo and Juliet will open the year, with a cast including Alex Williams (Underground: The Julian Assange Story, INXS: Never Tear Us Apart) as Romeo, and Kelly Paterniti (Bell Shakespeare’s As You Like It) as Juliet.
The program will also feature Othello, a play Shakespeare wrote 10 years after Romeo and Juliet, exploring the destructive power of jealousy and whispered rumours and starring Ray Chong Nee as Othello (Bell Shakespeare’s The Dream and MTC’s I Call My Brothers) and Yalin Ozucelik (Bell Shakespeare’s Henry IV and STC’s Cyrano de Bergerac) as the villain, Iago.
After 2014’s production of Tartuffe, the company will again return to the work of Molière – France’s answer to Shakespeare. This time with a production of The Literati, a new translation of La Femme Savants by Justin Fleming, bringing the play into 21st century Australia.
The program also includes a 10-month Actors At Work tour, taking 50-minute adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays to students in every state, including regional and remote communities.
