The Summer Shakespeare Festival 2017
The Summer Shakespeare Festival is the oldest and biggest open-air festival in Europe presenting works by William Shakespeare.
The Festival takes place from the beginning of July to the beginning of August on open-air scenes in Bratislava (Bratislava Castle ).The Festival was started by President Václav Havel when he opened the Prague Castle to artists in the early 1990s in an effort to attract the public there. The Actor Marian Zednikovic was playing on this festival and start production with this festival at Bratislava and the festival has been held regularly since 2000.
The Festival enjoys wide popularity as we can see in the demand for tickets, record audience numbers (close to 10,000 per season) and its overall standard reflected in the unparalleled and lively media response and appreciative criticism. Around 30 plays are staged during a summer in an open-air auditorium seating 300 – 500 people which is as a rule filled to capacity.
The Festival with its annual premieres has established itself during its existence as an event that the public at large does not miss. Plays staged exclusively for the Summer Shakespeare Festival are presented in Slovak and sometimes in Czech.
Now is 17th annual of festival is in production and bring f4 Shakespeare’s plays in premiere. As the first will be new production Comedy of Errors from 5th July – 18th July. We will continue with great title Hamlet of our Ostrava’s colleague in date 19th – 20th July. From Prague is invited the most famous Shakespeare’s love story title Romeo and Juliet from 22nd – 25th July . The festival closed tragedy about fierce jealousy – Othello with his special scene form 27th July – 1st August.
Tickets on all performances is available here: http://www.wshakespeare.sk/program.php
