ShakespeareOFF alternative strand of the Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival consists of two competitions:  ShakespeareOFF Productions (three laureates are presented in the festival programme) and ShakespeareOFF Presentations (performances qualified for the finals are presented and the best is seleced by the Jury during the festival).

The prize in the ShakespeareOFF Productions Competition is financial support for the production of an artistic event based on the works of William Shakespeare. The premiere of the event will take place during the 25th Shakespeare Festival in Gdańsk. The funding equals PLN 10,000 for each winner of the competition.

The ShakespeareOFF Presentations competition involves completed artistic events, the authors of which, qualified for the finals, will present themselves to the public during the Festival and compete for financial prizes.  The overall prize money equals PLN 15,000. In the ShakespeareOFF Presentations Competition, the winners will be selected by a Jury consisting of three members: Anda Rottenberg, Piotr Cieplak and Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk.

Results
22 projects were submitted to the ShakespeareOFF Productions Competition and 19 events were submitted to the ShakespeareOFF Presentations Competition. The Selection Committee, consisting of Acting Director of the Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre Maciej Sowiński, ShakespeareOFF 2021 Curator Katarzyna Knychalska and Festival Coordinator Joanna Śnieżko-Misterek, decided to select 3 winners of the ShakespeareOFF Productions 2021 Competitiont and 10 artistic events for the finals of ShakespeareOFF Presentations 2021 Competition.

Winners of the ShakespeareOFF Productions 2021 Competition:
– “Mist” – h.art company/ Artur Grabarczyk
– “Reciprocation” – Zakład Krawiecki Theatre/ Paweł Palcat
– “Shakespeare: mockup” – girl collective “blisko”/Mira Manka, Anna Rogóż

Finalists of the ShakespeareOFF Presentations 2021 Competition:

• “The actors have arrived” – Wiesław Cichy, Marek Kocot
• “And now the owls let us add the wings …” – Jakub Snochowski
• „I Come to You River: Ophelia Fractured” – Studio Kokyu
• „Island of Whispers” – Parrabbola&Teatr Strefa Otwarta
• “Name” – Middle East Artists’ Association
• “About The Two – puppets show” – Barnaby Theatre/ Marcin Marzec
• “Portions” – Zdenka Pszczołowska, Anna Oramus
• “The lost years” – Ewa Mikuła
• “Shakespearean Women” – Shakespeare Gang/ Magdalena Dąbrowska and ensemble
• “Shakespeare – r e i n k a r n a t i o n s” – Teatr Układ Formalny/ Adam Michał Pietrzak

Both competitions are organised by the Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre and Theatrum Gedanense Foundation at the 25th edition of the Shakespeare Festival in Gdansk. The artistic events selected for the competition will be presented in the programme of this year’s ShakespeareOFF.

ShakespeareOFF 2020 Competition deadline is prolonged until 30 July 2020!

Due to the fact that the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival has been postponed this year as the result of Covid-19 pandemic, the ShakespeareOFF Competition dealine has also been prolonged. We are waiting for your artistic event application until 30 July 2020, 15:00 (Warsaw time: CET+1).

The Regulations has also been amended considering the difficulties of Covid-19 situation, and therefore the application do not need to include the video recording of the show, but may take a form of a detailed description of the project/script.

ShakespeareOFF Competition 2020 (for the presentation of artistic events)
The aim of the Competition, established in 2016, is the selection and presentation of the most interesting artistic events based on, or inspired by, the works of William Shakespeare, produced by independent artists from Poland and abroad. The shows selected will be presented as part of the ShakespeareOFF programme at the 24^th Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival, and evaluated by the Competition Jury. The total prize fund is 15000 PLN. The application deadline is 31 July 2020. Please apply at: fs.szekspiroff@gmail.com.

ShakespeareOFF 2020 is a part of ”Shaking the Walls” project, co-financed as part of European Union’s Creative Europe programme. The aim of the project is the artistic interpretation of walls, divisions, borders – physical or metaphorical – everything that separates people from each other, both individuals, as well as social or ethnic groups, including nations and countries. The topic of ”Shaking the Walls” project is the keynote theme of ShakespeareOFF 2020.

COMPETITON REGULATIONS
APPLICATION FORM 

Competition Board of the new ShakespeareOFF Competition – Support to Polish Artistic Production has selected the following projects to be subsidized:

• BU FILM  „Glorious Summer”
• Kolektyw Kejos – „Epitafium Błazna”
• Kolektyw Kobietostan – „Ofelie”

The performances will have their premieres during the 24th Gdansk Shakespeare Festival taking place on 20-28 November 2020.

Moreover, two stand-by projects were selected providing any of the above productions could not be realized due to pandemic situation we are facing. There are the following productions:

• Grupa MASH „romeo & juliet. $RAVEdefinition$”
• Teatr Alatyr „Perykles, książę Tyru”