Bell Shakespeare’s Closet

Overview

If there remains a yet unexplored way to keep Shakespeare as lively and relevant as he was in Elizabethan England, you can be sure that John Bell and his Company will seek it out.

For the next six weeks, they're offering audiences a rare and exciting journey to witness creative genius at work. In a new pop-up space in The Rocks, known as Bell Shakespeare’s Closet, you can take a hands-on journey through the company's innermost workings.

While writers are throwing around ideas in a room upstairs, costume makers are designing, trimming, and sewing in preparation for Bell's first production for 2013, Henry IV, which will open at the Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre in May.

A gorgeous window display hosts costumes and props from the Company’s 23-year history, including a soldier’s jacket that featured in Macbeth (2012), a magnificent dress worn in Pericles (2009) and masks from Much Ado About Nothing (2001).