The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Paweł Aigner for The Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre at The Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, Gdańsk, Poland. 2015 Reviewed by Urszula Kizelbach The Merry Wives of Windsor (2015) – Shakespeare reloaded in the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre During the 19th Shakespeare Festival in Gdańsk the audience knew the Polish director Paweł Aigner prepared […]
H(2)O – Teatr Strefa Otwarta of Wroclaw, York International Shakespeare Festival, Performed and devised by Anna Rakowska and Piotr Misztela, New Schoolhouse Gallery, York. 11 May 2015 Reviewed by Sarah Olive (University of York) I have just walked across town from H(2)O – a devised production based on Hamlet and Ophelia’s relationship in Shakespeare’s play – straight into the Gillygate […]
PLEASE CONTINUE (HAMLET) directed by Yan Duyvendak and Roger Bernat, New Classics of Europe Festival, Stefan Jaracz Theatre, Łódź, Poland. 10 November, 2014 Reviewed by Agnieszka Rasmus (University of Łódź) https://www.nowaklasyka.pl/prosze.html Łódź boasts an interesting international festival called “New Classics of Europe” during which every year a number of inspiring, challenging, and acclaimed productions from all over the world […]
The Taming of the Shrew [Poskromienie złośnicy], dir. Katarzyna Deszcz, Stefan Żeromski Theatre in Kielce, Poland. Premiere: 12 April 2014 www.teatr-zeromskiego.com.pl Reviewed by Jacek Fabiszak There is not denying the fact that Shrew in the Western world poses a serious challenge. For a variety of reasons: because it is mysoginistic, because it cannot match the complexity […]
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 […]
Directed by Jan Klata for Teatr Polski in Wrocław and Staatsschauspiel Dresden at Teatr Wybrzeże, Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival, Poland. 3 August 2013. Reviewed by Aneta Mancewicz As a co-production between Teatr Polski in Wrocław and Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Jan Klata’s Titus Andronicus premiered in Wrocław on 15 September 2012 and in Dresden on 28 September 2012. […]
The Tempest; directed by Maja Kleczewska for Teatr Polski in Bydgoszcz, Poland, 4 February 2012. Reviewed by Paweł Schreiber The despot’s home In Maja Kleczewska’s staging of The Tempest, there is no island. It is substituted with a monstrously large, dilapidated room, filled with the detritus of years of family life – a random assortment […]
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 […]
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 – […]
