Image: a very young John Bell and Arthur Dignam in Coriolanus, complete with papier-mache armour.
Looking at the origins of the birth/rebirth of Australian performing and screen culture is like peering into a wonky telescope. Tiny bright images flick past of a time when the BBC was the Acme of Culture, when one still went ‘home’ to London, when university students wore tweed jackets and ties.
