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The winners of the 2010 Regional Performance Scholarship have been announced!
 

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The winners of the Optus and Bell Shakespeare Make A Scene Competition have been announced!

 

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New Associate Artistic Director Appointed: We are delighted to announce that Peter Evans will join the Company in November as our Associate Artistic Director.
 

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    • Work In Development
      Mind’s Eye is delighted to have six new works in various stages of creative development in 2009, two of which are writing commissions
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      • Mind's Eye | As Dreams Are Made On
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      • Gull
        Gull will be a modern investigation of the battlefield that is sex and gender during the Restoration period. This piece has been commissioned by Bell Shakespeare’s development arm, Mind’s Eye.
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      • Love and Violence
        Two companion pieces, Love and Violence will be written by Tom Holloway in response to Romeo And Juliet and Titus Andronicus. This piece has been commissioned by Bell Shakespeare’s development arm, Mind’s Eye.
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      • Mind's Eye | Merchants
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      • Night Songs
        The stories told in Night Songs will draw on various traditions of storytelling, from Aesop’s Fables to Til Eulenspiegel, Gypsy folk tales, fairy tales and myths. This piece has been commissioned by Bell Shakespeare’s development arm, Mind’s Eye.
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      • Mind's Eye | The Perfect Refugee, Shakespeare In A Time Of Crisis
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      • The Shadow King
        Bell Shakespeare's development arm, Mind's Eye, is fostering the work The Shadow King. This work aims to re-envision Shakespeare’s King Lear, performed in Indigenous languages with simultaneous translation.
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      • Forever Seven
        The starting point for Forever Seven was the idea of writing a new drama that used Jacques ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech from As You Like It as its engine.
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      • The Wreath
        Bell Shakespeare’s development arm, Mind’s Eye, has helped produce The Wreath, by Kate Mulvany. It is a new play for our brilliant Australian actresses and one that will delve deep into
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      • The Rest Is Silence
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      • Richard III
        This work continues Anna Tregloan’s series of installed works, founded on a principle that the audience that greets us as artists seeks and discovers, not as a homogenous mass, but through individual pathways.
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      • Arden
        Arden is a hip hop theatre adaptation of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. This piece has been commissioned by Bell Shakespeare’s development arm, Mind’s Eye.
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    • Hearts In A Row
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      • Hearts In A Row Benefiting Groups
        A list of the groups who have benefited from Bell Shakespeare’s Hearts In A Row, a programme that offers a unique access opportunity to members of our community who might not normally have the chance to enjoy the magic of a performance in the theatre.
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      • Corporate Entertaining
        For the first time Bell Shakespeare offers your business the exclusive opportunity to host and entertain groups in the theatre in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.
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      Bell Shakespeare’s vision lies within Shakespeare’s firm faith in human potential. His writing challenges us to reach beyond our grasp and gives us the wherewithal to imagine our future.
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    • Artistic Directors
      John Bell is the Artistic Director of Bell Shakespeare, and Marion Potts is both the Associate Artistic Director of Bell Shakespeare and the Artistic Director of its development arm Mind’s Eye.
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    • History
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