Non-fiction: Selected Writings of Inga Clendinnen and three more
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At first glance, Inga Clendinnenâs career as a historian is disorientatingly diverse. Having distinguished herself as a specialist in Meso-American studies, she shifted her focus to Australian history, her personal experience of illness, and then to the Holocaust. This selection of her writings captures the underlying principles that were constants in all her work â the importance of emotion, imagination and ethics in illuminating the past, and the belief that history can be conducive to âcivic virtueâ. The opening piece is a dazzling master class in her method. We are invited to witness an encounter between a pregnant Indigenous woman and a group of French explorers on a beach in 1801, and to enter into the colliding realitie
Theatre/ “One Man in His Time”, Bell Shakespeare. Canberra Theatre till 15 April. Reviewed by
SIMONE PENKETHMAN.
JOHN Bell’s one-man show was intended for another time, the year 2020, when the COVID-19 plague forced theatres around the world to close.
In Shakespeare’s own time, periodic waves of bubonic plague closed theatres in London, forcing the bard and his company to hit the road. On April 14, an audience filled Canberra’s Playhouse Theatre to capacity for the first time in more than a year.
The show’s title, “One Man in His Time” refers equally to Shakespeare and to Bell. John Bell discovered Shakespeare as a high-school student, 65 years ago. His teenage fascination became his life’s work.
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One Man in His Time review: Gently tightening our grip on Shakespeare
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If John Bell is anything to go by, basking in the words of William Shakespeare for 65 years is good for the soul. Exuding a calm generosity of spirit, he spent an hour conveying his singular love for this greatest of writers, artists and perhaps minds.
Bell was blessed with school teachers who fostered this obsession â which, in turn, prompted him to act. In his 20s he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and soon after his return I first encountered him playing Hamlet in Nimrodâs striking âmirrorâ production, before discovering his directing in an equally memorable