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27th International Shakespeare Festival


Productions from Spain, Ukraine, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom and Poland can be seen within the framework of the 27th international Shakespeare Festival. The programme includes a production by the legendary Peter Brook, the Polish premiere by the international, inter-disciplinary artistic collective Needcompany, a flamenco show (namely a Spanish “Hamlet”), a fifteen-minute synthetic opera performed by the Łódź Kaliska group, a meditational literary feast with a great star of world cinema, Charlotte Rampling, in the leading role, and many accompanying events.

Preparations for the 27th international Shakespeare Festival have been taking place in the shadow of the war in Ukraine, which did not manage to be seen on our theatre stages during the last edition of the Festival. This year, we have in the background not only the war in Ukraine but also bloody protests in Iran, the football World Cup paid for in the blood of thousands of innocent people and the muzzling of sportspersons fighting for human rights, and times of ever more difficult living conditions for the whole of Europe, in which inflation is galloping at a rate unknown since 1989. Problems connected with climate destruction can be felt ever more acutely on our own skins, even though we do not seem concerned about this on a daily basis. Fundamental individual rights are being broken in many countries while the world does not seem to be learning from its own mistakes and from the repeating mechanisms of history. A reflection of the current situation will be the motto drawn from “King Lear” by William Shakespeare: “The excellent foppery of the world”!

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Previous editions

Here you can find detailed information on previous editions of the festival
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Jury

of the 27th edition of the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival

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USA

Eleanor Skimin

USA

Eleanor Skimin

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Poland

Jacek Kopciński

Poland

Jacek Kopciński

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Poland

Aneta Mancewicz

Poland

Aneta Mancewicz

Curators

of the 27th edition of the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival

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Golden Yorick Competition

Łukasz Drewniak

Golden Yorick Competition

Łukasz Drewniak

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SzekspirOFF Competition

Katarzyna Knychalska

SzekspirOFF Competition

Katarzyna Knychalska

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Foreign performances

Collective curator

Foreign performances

Collective curator


Competition

ShakespeareOFF

Shakespeare, an accompanying strand to the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival, in a form of a competiton. Details for each performance are available at the Programme page.
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Competition

The Golden Yorick

Competition for the best Polish Shakespeare adaptation of the current artistic season. See the history of the Golden Yorick Competition.
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Konkurs

Nowy Yorick

Konkurs adresowany jest do młodych twórców debiutujących w polskim teatrze i ma na celu zachęcenie ich do czytania i inscenizowania dzieł Williama Szekspira, szukania w jego twórczości odpowiedzi na współczesne problemy oraz testowania za ich pomocą nowych form teatralnych.
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Useful organisational data

Plan Your Visit

Festival performances are presented at the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival and other theatre stages in Tri-City (Gdansk, Sopot, Gdynia). Tickets are available online and at the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival Box Office. The festivals programme comprises performances from Poland and the world inspired by the works of William Shakespeare.


Box Office

Tickets

are available online or at the box office of the Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre, which are open every day from 14.00 to 19.00.
Contact: +48 58 351 0101 / bow@teatrszekspirowski.pl
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Tri-City

Venues

Festival events take place at the Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre and other Tricity venues. The map will help you find festival spots in the Tricity.
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Festival

Programme

The Gdansk Shakespeare Festival is an international meeting platform of the theatre creators and European audience. New outstanding Shakespeare adaptations, debates, workshops and accompanying events.
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