Performances from Spain, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, and Poland will be shown during the 27th International Shakespeare Festival. A special offer of the best seats has been prepared for the staff of the University of Gdańsk, in honour of the cooperation with the Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre.
The 27th International Shakespeare Festival 'The excellent foppery of the world!' will take place from July 26 to August 6, 2023. The programme includes a production by the legendary Peter Brook, a co-production between the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre and Needcompany, 'Hamlet' in a flamenco version, a fifteen-minute synthetic opera by Łódź Kaliska featuring Michał Urbaniak, a meditative literary feast with the great star of the world's cinema - Charlotte Rampling, and many accompanying events.
The festival will be inaugurated with 'Lear. An Actor's Essay by Andrzej Seweryn' ( July 26).
On July 28, for the first time at the Shakespeare Festival in Gdańsk, it will be possible to see 'Hamlet. The dance of the melancholic' in a flamenco version.
The shortest festival offering is from the legendary Łódź Kaliska, which will present a 15-minute (!) synthetic opera ‘Makbeth ŁK’a, szepty i podszepty’ on July 29.
On July 29 and 30, audiences will see a provocative diagnosis of contemporary theatre based on 'King Lear' performed by award-winning actor and performer Tim Crouch. The play 'Truth's a Dog Must to Kennel', held in the form of frenetic stand-up, won a Fringe First award at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It was accompanied by rave reviews.
On July 31, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', directed by Andriy Bilous from Kiev's Molodyi National Academic Theatre from Ukraine, will be presented.
Also on July 31, it will be possible to see the winner of the ShakeSphere competition held by the European Shakespeare Festival Network (ESFN), the production of 'The Tragedy of Macbeth' by Flabbergast Theatre (UK), directed by Henry Maynard.
This year, the last production by the legendary Peter Brook will also be presented. 'The Tempest' project was already scheduled to appear at the festival a year ago.
On August 3, festival audiences will see 'At Home with Will Shakespeare' performed by Pip Utton, one of Britain's leading actors specialising in monodramas.
Another performance, played on August 4 and 5, is the Polish premiere of an international star, the Flemish collective Needcompany.
At the very end of the festival, on August 6, the organisers will take the audience to a meditative literary feast featuring a great star in the lead role. Actress Charlotte Rampling and cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton create a poetic dialogue between Shakespeare's sonnets and Bach's suites in a performance of 'Shakespeare-Bach'.
The full Festival programme is attached at the bottom of the text.
The International Shakespeare Festival takes place every summer in the Tricity and has been organised by the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre and the Theatrum Gedanense Foundation for 26 years. More than 240 different theatre companies from over 40 countries have presented at it. Works by Peter Brook, Luk Perceval, Romeo Castellucci, Elizabeth LeCompte, Lew Dodin, Eimuntas Nekrošius, Oskaras Koršunovas, Tiago Rodrigues, Jan Lauwers, Roberto Ciulli, Robert Sturua, and many others have been displayed (altogether, during the previous editions, over 250 directors from all over the world have presented their productions).
The festival is an international platform for the exchange of experiences, theatrical practices, and discussions of communities connected with the works of William Shakespeare and theatre fans. The Shakespeare Festival in Gdańsk - as the only festival from Poland and one of five in Europe - received the prestigious EFFE Award, granted by the European Festivals Association (EFA) in cooperation with the European Commission and the European Parliament.
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