Shakespearean Tourism

Ormsby, Robert

doi:10.4324/9781315778341-25

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“…40 They would do so to channel Shakespeare 'the author-as-historical-other' while encountering the theatrical otherness of international performance in ways that raised Hungarian theatre's international reputation. 41 If, as Júlia Paraizs and Ágnes Matuska astutely remark, the Várszínház was serving as a quasi-national theatre in pursuing this goal, the Festival's reversal of the proportion of Hungarian and international performances Gedeon mentioned in 2005 is telling. 42 While the Festival has hosted productions from many countries, performances by Hungarian companies and Hungarian-language shows from Romania and Slovakia have outnumbered non-Hungarian productions at a rate of two-to-one.…”

Section: Gyula As Tourist Place and The Várszínházmentioning

confidence: 99%

Shakespeare, national memory, and tourist place: Gyula's Várszínház Festival

Ormsby

2022

Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies

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This article examines the relationships between tourism, national identity, and Shakespearean performance at the Várszinház Festival in Gyula, Hungary. By hosting highly experimental Shakespearean productions, the Festival runs counter to the ethos of the town's other leisure activities. This article examines how a 2013 production of Hamlet and a 2016 production of Richard III, both staged in the courtyard of the medieval castle, exemplify the ways that Shakespeare can be made to play with and against this richly meaningful performance site. I will conclude by suggesting ways to think about such performance in relation Gyula's identity as a tourist place.

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Section: Gyula As Tourist Place and The Várszínházmentioning

confidence: 99%