Everyone is welcome....

Every year since 2002 Shakespeare in Styria has gathers together an international group of young actors and musicians in the beautiful Styrian Alps to perform and produce multiple events around the central core of a Shakespearean play.

Due to the pressures of time and money in 2012 we will be taking a well earned break this summer.

We regret this decision but will use the year to re-form and  re-emerge strongly in 2013 at the same venue in Murau with Othello in an exciting production, directed by Sean Aita. We will be presenting the usual mix of concerts, readings, lectures, workshops and discussions, and, if possible, a second guest-production from London. 

Othello is one of Shakespeare's most vivid and explosive plays and it will be very exciting for us all to be tackling this great dramatic masterpiece.

International and local, European and Austrian, young and old, you will all be welcome to join us next summer.

.....see you at the party in July 2013!

  

Background information:

Shakespeare in Styria was founded by Nicholas Allen and Rudolph Wojta in 2002. The aim was and is to bring together some 30 to 35 young actors, acting students and school leavers who intend to make theatre their career for two weeks during July each year in Murau, a tiny but beautiful medieval town tucked away in the heart of the Styrian Alps of Austria.

In July 2011 the very experienced Sean Aita directed his first full production for Shakespeare in Styria with a wonderfully well received production of Twelfth Night, with the whole cast receiving expert tuition from our Artist in Residence, Roberta Brown, in stage fighting.

In July 2010, we had two productions; King Lear & A Midsummer Night's Dream. King Lear was played by our Actor in Residence of several years standing, John Harwood.

2010 was the last year that Dan Winder, resident Artisitic Director for Shakespeare in Styria from 2007 to 2010, was able to join us. Over the four years that Dan led the artistic direction of the company Shakespeare in Styria grew in confidence and excellence, becoming a real Anglo Austrian cultural success story. His productions of Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth will long remain in the memory of those lucky enough to see them and his final show, King Lear, was a fitting culimination to his distinguished time with us.

Young actors and acting students interested should contact us during the autumn or winter, as we aim to have our cast together well before Easter each year.

Nick Allen, Founder

  

 

Shakespeare Returns in...

July 2013
In 2012 the team at Shakespeare in Styria is taking a well earned break. They will return in 2013 with a festival bigger than ever.