THE TAMING OF THE SHREW - BELL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY

THEATRE ROYAL - Thursday and Friday 8.00pm, Saturday 5th 2.00pm and 8.00pm

Bearded ladies! Smoke and mirrors! Lion tamers and whip crackers! They’re all here as two men come to Padua in pursuit of learning and love. The first, Lucentio, fixes his gaze on Bianca, the sweet and gentle daughter of the merchant Baptista. The second, Petruchio, hears of Bianca’s wanton and wild sister Kate, and vows to tame her and teach her to be an agreeable wife. All will be married, all will be well - or so it would seem.


BOOKINGS AND ENQUIRIES: 03 6233 2299 (or freecall outside of Hobart 1800 650 277)

WEBSITE & ONLINE BOOKINGS: www.theatreroyal.com.au

AMADEUS

THEATRE ROYAL - 7.30pm

Set amidst the opulence and splendor of eighteenth century Vienna, Amadeus focuses on Antonio Salieri, exaulted as the most famous composer in a city of musicians until the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrives.

Brutally confronted by the limitations of his own talent and believing God to have abandoned him, Salieri embarks upon a desperate course of action. Salieri, competent but with limited talent contrasts dramatically with Mozart, a genius who behaved badly. Salieri has every reason to be obsessively jealous of the young upstart.

A dark fantasy about music, genius, jealousy, madness and murder, Peter Shaffer's Amadeus is one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century - a drama od immense emotional power and lyric beauty capturing both the inexpilable nature of supreme genius and the shattering self-awareness of mediocrity.

BOOKINGS AND ENQUIRIES: 03 6233 2299 (or freecall outside of Hobart 1800 650 277)

WEBSITE & ONLINE BOOKINGS: www.theatreroyal.com.au