Copenhagen: SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL – Open Air Theatre – Kronborg Castle

Every year in August HamletScenen presents the Shakespeare Festival, with plenty of open-air theatre, at Kronborg Castle in Helsingør.

Release time : 2018-04-17 14:20:25

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(Source: Visit Copenhagen)

Every year in August HamletScenen presents the Shakespeare Festival, with plenty of open-air theatre, at Kronborg Castle in Helsingør. The Shakespeare Festival is a celebration of William Shakespeare’s works and original open-air theatre, and is a meeting place for Shakespeare enthusiasts and other inquisitive visitors from all over the world.

True to tradition, this August HamletScenen will be presenting the Shakespeare Festival in the open air, and this summer the festival will be featuring some very special international guest productions. Last year the festival inaugurated a new stage area built out over the moat, with the handsome Kronborg Castle as its backdrop. This entirely unique setting will complete the experience when the stage is occupied by Peking Opera, a German theatre concert and this year’s in-house productions Shakespeare in Concert and Shakespeare Was Here.

On 1 August the Shakespeare Festival opens with a reunion when Shanghai Peking Opera Company performs Hamlet - The Revenge of Prince Zi Dan. The production was specifically created for Kronborg Castle back in 2005, when the first performance sold out and the run had to be extended by a day. The enthusiasm extended beyond the public, with reviewers also heaping praise on the production. It is therefore with particular pleasure that HamletScenen’s director, Lars Romann Engel, is inviting the production back to Kronborg.

Searching for William, a pop-rock theatre concert that combines light, sound and film to create a strong visual and sensory narrative. This is anything but classical theatre, with the audience invited into a wonderful world somewhere between dream and reality. Fronted by the critically acclaimed actor and singer Christian Friedel, who has guested at the Shakespeare Festival at Kronborg on two previous occasions, the band Woods Of Birnam has been performing this visual and poetic theatre concert to sold-out venues.

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