One of the highlights of this year?s festival will be a produciton by the Csokonai Theatre of Debrecen of The Taming of the Shrew starring a real-life married couple: Nelli Szücs and Zsolt Trill, said Gyula Castle Theatre director József Gedeon. The performance can be seen for three evenings from July 8, he added.
The festival, to feature two to three productions a day between July 5 and 17, will bring theatre-goers a number of world-class productions, including Peter Brooks? German language production of Warum, Warum.
On July 16, visitors to Gyula can see the Romanian director Andrei Serban?s King Lear. The production is a curiosity as it features ? unlike Shakespeare?s original plays in which men played all of the roles ? only women.
Michael Pennington will bring Sweet William to the Gyula Castle Theatre stage on July 13, and Bea von Malchus will play more than 20 different characters in a production of Henry VIII.
Two actors from Zimbabwe will play the leads in The Two Gentlemen of Verona or Two Guys From Zimbabwe.
The Hungarian director Sándor Zsótér will bring his production of Hamlet to the festival and a dance production of Romeo and Juliet will arrive from Sfantu Gheorghe, Romania.
The Hungarian Gypsy Jazz pianist Béla Szakcsi Lakatos will play his composition A Midsummer?s Night Dream at the festival, and the opera singer Viktória Vizin, who lives in the United States, will perform a concert entitled Shakespeare With Song.
