The Summer Shakespeare Festival
The Summer Shakespeare Festival is the oldest and biggest open-air festival in Slovakia presenting works by William Shakespeare
The festival was held for the first time in Bratislava in 2001. Brilliant Shakespeare games and the unique atmosphere of summer evenings are from the beginning extremely attractive to top creators and enthusiastic viewers.
These plays are always a multiple celebration of the theatre art as such and still in an unconventional open air premises, bringing them closer to the original famous Globe Theatre as much as possible. They are above all a feast of Shakespeare himself and his theatrical legacy. Their successful existence for several years proves that even their audiences joined the audience, which volunteered to participate in more than 450 years of confirmation of the existence of ethical principles, about which Shakespeare’s characters are fighting their most tragic or comical battles.
