Gaudi Red Review of Gdański Teatr Szekspirowski
The place itself is very original, not very attrac...
The place itself is very original, not very attractive to me, such a large dark block. It's from outside. As for functionality ... oh, oh. I'll start from the parking lot. When you want to go to a party at this theater, I recommend coming a lot sooner or looking for a car park near the coal market right away. Inside, only precious materials, simple forms, but unfortunately everything is not functional. And probably the worst are spaces for viewers. Ordinary wooden stairs (shelves, if you prefer - quite wide), enclosed in three boxes / balconies that surround the three sides of the square, the fourth is the set and stage. On the aforementioned shelf / stairs there are beige thin pillows, such as it is customary to lay on garden chairs. The pillows on which we were supposed to sit with friends turned out to be dirty and we gave up this dubious pleasure. As we all come from circles, where one should dress appropriately for the theater, the ladies put on dresses and heels, and the gentlemen wore elegant pants, shirts and jackets. It is impossible to describe how uncomfortable to sit in the audience of the Shakespeare Theater in an elegant dress and high-heeled shoes. A knee-length dress causes so much trouble that everyone who sits below has an additional spectacle and heels ... well, the material the audience is made of is extremely slippery. Gentlemen had definitely more comfort, but unfortunately you can't call it comfort. After a three-hour performance (we were at Happy Friends from Windsor), we all had four letters and a spine that hurt, because those seats have no backs!
There were standing places at the stage, I don't even want to think about how uncomfortable those people must have been. Although .... entering the theater, we noticed a few people quite "comfortably" dressed, after seeing the conditions in which we were to watch the performance, we figured that it was them and not us, they were properly dressed: /
The interior of the theater itself does not knock down, narrow, interior prison corridors with lots of stairs. Very strange handrails, as if embedded in the wall, slippery stone on the floor, and sudden high spaces, empty, that you could arrange the ballroom there.
In summary, I do not like theater, non-functional / impractical, unfriendly and unpleasant to the eye. The art itself is sensational. It is a pity that it was played in such a hostile place.
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