• Title
  Item 1: John Bell interview by Martin Portus, 12 November 2018
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  12 November 2018
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9650254
• Physical Description
  1 audio file (approx. 2 hrs., 35 mins.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 khz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  In the first of two interviews, Sydney-based actor and theatre director, John Bell describes his post-war upbringing in Maitland, New South Wales, his early fascination with the theatre, in particular Shakespeare, his time at Sydney University with fellow students Clive James and Germaine Greer and his eventual move from acting to directing after a successful stint in England with the Bristol Old Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Company. He speaks in detail about Australian theatre and culture during the 1960s and 1970s and explains how his career evolved from actor, to teacher, to theatre company co-founder when he, Ken Horler and Richard Wherrett established the Nimrod Theatre in Kings Cross, Sydney in 1970.
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Rights and Restrictions Information:: Download available for research, personal use and public use
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded at REC Studios, 301 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, New South Wales, on 12 November 2018
  Acquired in digital format, access copy available
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Bell, John, 1940-
  
• Subject
  Theatrical producers and directors--New South Wales--Interviews.
  Theater--Production and direction--Australia.
  Walsh, Richard, 1941---Interviews.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE18994004

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