The Tempest

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Event The Tempest
Venue Playhouse (Sydney Opera House), Sydney, NSW
First Date 15 October 1997
Opening Date 17 October 1997
Last Date 15 November 1997
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Part of a Tour Yes
Description Bell Shakespeare Company. This production is "a light telling of a mysterious fable, a highly personal and deeply felt meditation on art and life, renunciation and redemption. As in most fables there is an element of amazement at work and Shakespeare's last play begins with a storm at sea, a catharsis that plunges his characters into a ritual of transformation and revelation. They enter a labyrinth, a maze, an imagined world, an alien land where they will undergo a sea-change into something rich and strange".
Description Source Programme
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Drama
Elizabethan
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Paula Arundell Actor
John Bell Actor
Tim Eliott Actor
Peter Lamb Actor
Tyrone Landau Actor
Tom Long Actor
Rachael Maza Long Actor
Larney Tupu Actor
Michael Turkich Actor
Kerry Walker Actor
Keith Bain Choreographer
Tyrone Landau Composer
Michael Wilkinson Costume Designer
Jim Sharman Director
Antony Ernst Dramaturg/e
Rory Dempster Lighting Designer
William Shakespeare Playwright
Michael Wilkinson Set Designer
Jane Mitchell Stage Manager
Resources
Works
Further Information Programme contains brief biographies and photographs of the cast. All information about this production, including programme notes, are available through the Bell Shakespeare Company web site. See the resources and archive links provided at www.bellshakespeare.com.au.
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Programme PROMPT Collection, National Library of Australia
Brochure Sydney Opera House Diary Oct/Nov 1997
Event Identifier 23287