Poland's New Theater Celebrates Ties to Shakespeare

A new Elizabethan-style theater opened in Gdansk last week on the site of a building that showed Shakespeare's plays during his lifetime in the Baltic Sea city. Celebrating its ties with the English playwright, the Gdansk Shakespeare Theater hosted actors on its opening night from Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London, who are putting on “Hamlet” there this week. Revolving platforms and 56 lifts allow the theater to change from an Elizabethan stage, to a box-set or into a...

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