This year’s call brought us a plethora of Hamlets (around 70% of all submissions!), two of which were among the selected proposals. The legendary Cinema Theatre, known for its Dadaist play with word and image, is also among the five winners, and this time wants to turn Shakespearean themes upside down. Also working on specific Shakespearean themes will be Hertz Haus, a Gdańsk-based dance theatre, which has chosen as its starting point the notions of dirt and cleanliness, and the motif of stains omnipresent in Shakespeare. The artists of Hertz Haus will analyse these concepts in a performance with the provocative title “To bitch or not to bitch”. The stakes are closed by the young duo Bijata/Pinkiewicz with their proposal Hardcore, a theatrical experiment to explore the audience’s sensitivity to Shakespeare’s ubiquitous death scenes.

Katarzyna Knychalska, curator of ShakespeareOFF