British Universities Film & Video Council

moving image and sound, knowledge and access

Shakespeare in Gdansk

Synopsis
Radio programme. Michal Kubicki reports on the International Shakespearean Festival 2007 in Gdansk. He talks to Jerzy Limon, a theatre historian and scholar who in the early 1990s discovered traces of a Shakespearean playhouse in Gdansk. An important merchant town in the 17th century, the Baltic city appears to have had quite a large British colony with documented visits by English actors. One of the goals of the Shakespeare Festival is to promote Limon’s project to reconstruct the theatre that resembles the Fortune in London.
Series
Poland Today
Language
English
Country
Poland
Medium
Radio
Availability
Unknown
Notes
Broadcast by the English section of the Polish Radio External Service. An audio clip is available for download at http://www.polskieradio.pl/zagranica/news/artykul56616.html (accessed 9/9/2008).
Subjects
Drama
Keywords
festivals; Poland; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); theatre history

Credits

Contributor
Jerzy Limon; Michal Kubicki

Production Company

Name

Polskie Radio

View this record on the Shakespeare site for additional details

Record Stats

This record has been viewed 106 times.