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Summing up the 16th Shakespeare Festival

The Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival took place between 27th July and 5th August 2012. The activities presented within the “Discovering Theatrelands” project included the presentation of “The Tempest” by Silviu Purcarete form Craiova National Theatre (Romania) and “Hamlet” by Luk Perceval of Thalia Theatre, Germany. There were also co-productions of a community play “The Winter’s Tale” prepared by Parrabbola (UK) together with Ostrava Shakespeare Festival (CZ) and Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival and also a Polish-Danish co-productions of “Hamlet” by Hamletscenen/Walny-Theatre. Additionally there was a creative Summer Shakespeare Academy developed with Q&A sessions, workshops and lectures and a “Theatre in Education” art programme in the region. Moreover an alternative festival scene called ShakespeareOFF, with performances, improvisations, dance theatre, happenings, films, concerts, etc. was a part of the project’s activities.

Let’s discover 9 main stage performances…

Hamlet, dir. Luk Perceval, Thalia Theater, Germany

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Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival (Poland) – 5^th of August, 2012

There is no time for grief in the state of Denmark. Continuity in politics is sacred – after the funeral banquet, there must always come a wedding, “business as usual”. What can Hamlet do when the situation becomes unbearable? The prince, inexperienced and uncontaminaed by the filth of politics, hesitates between choosing becoming a perpetrator and remaining a victim. Played by two actors, Hamlet is here the symbol of la condition humaine: a man torn between reason and emotion, between truth and lie.

Hamlet, Thalia Theater, Germany

Learn and play with Shakespeare’s plays!

Project ‘Discovering Theatrelands’ combine European theatre performances, a community play and alternative stage as well as educational activities.

Workshops with Gian Carlo Rossi, Gdańsk

The title of the project – ‘Discovering Theatrelands’– should be understood quite literally for educational actions, in which theoreticians and organizers of cultural life took part, were just as important as the plays.

Four European Shakespeare Festivals took part in eight-month project including Neuss (Germany), Gyula (Hungary), Ostrava (Czech Republic) and Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival (Poland).

Summer Shakespeare Academy offered a series of lectures, meetings with the artists, and workshops of various kinds. High standard of discussion was guaranteed by international experts – culture researchers, directors and managers of Shakespearean cultural institutions.

Only two days left to the 16th Shakespeare Festival

Mindscape of a roguespirit

Mindscape of a roguespirit

After a littlebreak David Monteithreturns to the blogosphere with a brief commentary on the last week doing The Winters Tale in the Czech Republic.

http://davidmonteith.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/ostrava-round-up-fear-costume-woes.html

 

Three languages in The Winter’s Tale

 

Jan, Izabela and Becka – working on the translation

 

 

We’re working on The Winter’s Tale in three languages – English, Czech and Polish, and trying to incorporate all three into the overall story telling. It’s a fascinating process to see how the shifting between languages can not only perform the principal function of keeping audiences up to speed with the narrative, but can also have a dramatic function. We’ve associated our two countries – Poland and the Czech Republic – with the Sicilia and Bohemia of Shakespeare’s text, so that immediately gives a focus to who speaks what language. And of course we need to work with the language skills of our participants – it’s quite humbling to work with community participants who can switch with some facility from Czech to English and then Polish, while the creative team muddle along in one language.

Winter’s Tale Casting on Television

CLICK HERE for TVP News featuring the Winter’s Tale Casting in Gdansk. Section starts at 16:08.

Mindscape of a Roguespirit: Making The Winter’s Tale Pt 2

In his 2nd blog post David talks about his first day with the cast and why he loves community theatre.

This post is a multi media extravaganza complete with video, pictures, interviews and a sample of the cast singing.

Check it out here – Mindscape of a roguespirit: Making The winters Tale Pt 2