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Players Company Rehearsals - Bell Shakespeare - 22nd -23rd April
2025-04-22 10:00 - 2025-04-23 15:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Bell Shakespeare Headquarters, 13 Hickson Rd, Dawes Point, NSW, 2000, Australia
Players Company Rehearsals for the Bell Shakespeare school’s performances.
This is a Free activity – please only book if you are sure you will be attending so others don’t miss out. No ticket transfers / swaps.
If you are interested in Shakespeare activities – consider booking into our ‘World of Will’ Shakespeare workshop at Seymour Centre in May.
Dates and times you can book tickets (you must have a ticket for every attending person) – please limit to one adult per family group.
Tuesday 22 April 2025Bottom’s Dream – 10 AM – 11 AM (Years 2-6 Stages 2 & 3)Such Sweet Sorrow – 12 – 1 PM (Years 7-10 Stages 4 & 5)Macbeth: The Rehearsal – 2:30 – 3:30 PM (Years 10-12 Stage 6) Wednesday 23 April 2025Bottom’s Dream – 10 AM – 11 AM. (Years 2-6. Stages 2 & 3)Such Sweet Sorrow – 12 – 1 PM. (Years 7-10. Stages 4 & 5)Macbeth: The Rehearsal – 2:30 – 3:30 PM. (Years 10-12 Stage 6)

BOTTOM’S DREAM
By Joanna Erskine
Bottom has had a most rare vision. He’s just woken up in the forest after a strange dream involving fairies, magic flowers and donkey ears. Was it just a dream, or was it real?
In this adventurous, hilarious and heart-warming show, we explore the magic and mayhem of Shakespeare’s classic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Take Bottom’s hand and help him piece together his strange dream through key scenes from the original play, playing with Shakespeare’s language and characters along the way.
This is A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the eyes of one of Shakespeare’s greatest clowns. A magical introduction to Shakespeare for primary students.
SUCH SWEET SORROW
By Joanna Erskine and Matt Edgerton
One ancient grudge, one lifechanging connection, and one society forever changed. Romeo and Juliet remains a rollercoaster ride of passion and violence, and a tale that, generations on, we continue returning to. Join The Players as they retell Shakespeare’s classic from youthful innocence to tragic conclusion, via modern commentary interweaved with Shakespeare’s original text.

Such Sweet Sorrow is an engaging and interactive performance experience for students and teachers that will keep the audience on the edge of their seats, from first sight to final breath. In 50 minutes The Players will journey through the entire story, discussing character motivations, illuminating themes and analysing language techniques and narrative devices.
MACBETH: THE REHEARSAL
By Joanna Erskine
A director has called their two leading actors to a special rehearsal of the ‘Scottish Play’, and your students are invited to observe. The show opens in two weeks and things are not looking good. It’s crunch time to engage with Shakespeare’s classic tragedy and transform text into performance. Become a fly on the wall for this fictional rehearsal, with illuminating and entertaining results.

Macbeth: The Rehearsal invites students to play observer and participant in this immersive and interactive show. Watch The Players play and replay with famous scenes and soliloquies from Macbeth. Witness the play’s trajectory blur with the actors’ own journeys, discovering key motivations, themes, language techniques and plot devices. This is a show that celebrates theatre-making, storytelling and the power of the imagination, within an engaging contemporary narrative.
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