XVIII Festiwal Szekspirowski w Gdańsku / 18th Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival Teatr Szekspirowski / The Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre Gdańsk, Poland 27 September – 5 October 2014 https://www.festiwalszekspirowski.pl https://teatrszekspirowski.pl/index.php Reviewed by Magdalena Cieślak This year’s eighteenth edition of the Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival was special for a couple of reasons. The first was its “coming of age” status, as […]
Hamlet, dir. Jan Klata, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Gdańsk, Poland, 4 October 2014. https://www.festiwalszekspirowski.pl/index.php Reviewed by Magdalena Cieślak With Hamlet, perhaps more that with other plays, one always waits for the first words. Is it going to be “Who’s there?”, or are they going straight for Claudius’s speech? Or maybe they’ll start with Hamlet’s soliloquy? There are many possibilities. […]
MAKBET (MACBETH) – Horror Puppet Show, dir. Michał Derlatka, Teatr w Oknie / TwO Windows Theatre, Gdańsk, Poland. 5 October 2014. https://www.festiwalszekspirowski.pl/index.php https://www.teatrwoknie.pl/stronaglowna.php Reviewed by Magdalena Cieślak ShakespeareOFF was a series of events accompanying the 18th Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival, offering not only the “Off” versions of Shakespeare’s plays but also taking those shows “off” the […]
The Taming of the Shrew, dir. Małgorzata Warsicka for Lodz Film School at Studyjny Theatre in Łódź, Poland. January – March 2014. Reviewed by Magdalena Cieślak When the Lodz Film School took up The Taming of the Shrew for their Acting Department diploma performance, it was imperative for me to go and see it. Partly, to compare it […]
“Sceny miłosne z dramatów Szekspira” – Love Scenes from Shakespeare’s Plays (based on Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth) dir. Ewelina Ciszewska, Teatr Sztuk, Wrocław performed by Ewelina Ciszewska and Krzysztof Roszko videos – Robert Baliński music – Marcin Krzyżanowski Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, Summer with Shakespeare cycle, 29 July 2014 Reviewed by Magdalena Cieślak Shakespeare without words […]
Hamlet, directed by Maciej Englert, Teatr Współczesny w Warszawie, Warsaw, Poland. 30 November 2013. https://www.wspolczesny.pl/ https://www.wspolczesny.pl/repertuar/biezacy/hamlet Review by Magdalena Cieślak The curtain goes up. Centre stage, there is a chair slightly resembling that in Olivier’s Hamlet. A person is sitting in that chair in a pose slightly recalling Olivier’s brooding prince. As courtiers start pouring in, the solitary figure – […]
