Welcome to Speak The Speech; the podcast from Australia’s national theatre company Bell Shakespeare, celebrating some of Shakespeare’s greatest speeches with some of our best-known actors, directors and thinkers.
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Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Mercutio from Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene 4 performed by Abbie-lee Lewis
This week Abbie-lee Lewis joins James on Speak The Speech performing and discussing Mercutio’s Queen Mab speech from Act 1, Scene 4 of Romeo and Juliet. Abbie-lee discusses dreamers and realists in Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, how iambic pentameter ‘clicked’ Shakespeare into place for her, and the importance of representation in the arts. Abbie-lee is a graduate of WAAPA. She has performed with Bell Shakespeare as part of The Players and has appeared in productions for young people of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth. Most recently she was Assistant Director on Peter Evans' 2020 production of Hamlet.
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