Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful Times – Close Strangers Festival Emma Burnell 13/09/2019 Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful Times is a fascinating play deserving of a wider audience and greater understanding. That I am saying that having e...
Red Wedding – Close Strangers Festival Emma Burnell 12/09/2019 Red Wedding is an interactive piece with an interesting cultural past and much to recommend it. It explores through the enactment of a secular wedding...
Modern Slavery – Close Strangers Festival Emma Burnell 11/09/2019 Modern Slavery is not really a play in the traditional sense. It is a collaborative piece in which each of the cast has researched different aspects o...
Alona Szostak in conversation with Rivka Jacobson Gdansk Shakespeare Festival 2019 Rivka Jacobson 24/08/2019 On the morning of 1st of August 2019, at the friendly Dom Muzyka hotel in Gdansk, while having coffee and a chat with a talented young Armenian direct...
The Merchant of Venice (Kupiec wenecki) Gdansk Shakespeare Festival Rivka Jacobson 08/08/2019 This play makes uncomfortable viewing for many Jews and for many non-Jewish people concerned about the resurgence of anti-Semitism among populists thr...
Romeo and Juliet Gdansk Shakespeare Festival Rivka Jacobson 03/08/2019 Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare’s best-known and probably most-performed play. How does a director challenge theatre audience with yet another Romeo &...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Gdansk Shakespeare Festival Rivka Jacobson 30/07/2019 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. They found fame in 1966 at the hands of Tom Stoppard, then a very ...
Prezydentki Aleksandra Pytko 19/12/2018 Werner Schwab was an extraordinary figure in the German-speaking theatre world. During his brief 4-year-long career, he proved himself to be a true vi...
Makbet Aleksandra Pytko 23/11/2018 The universality of William Shakespeare’s plays was already recognized by his contemporaries. Ben Johnson believed that the Bard’s poetry is “not of a...
As You Like It Aleksandra Pytko 07/09/2018 In William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the Forest of Arden offers an escape from stiff courtly life into enchanting chaos. It is a fascinating place...
