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Students from 32 countries to perform Shakespeare's sonnets

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Students from 32 countries to perform Shakespeare's sonnets


10.07.2020

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Shakespeare's poetry has become the main topic of the Global Shakespeare Sonnets international project, TASS reports. It is conducted by the Yekaterinburg Theater Institute with the participation of the Berlin University of Arts. The project is going to bring together students of theater universities from more than 30 countries. The teachers are going to perform together with the students.

More than 150 sonnets by the great British playwright will be presented to viewers in different languages.

The project covers different countries from Australia and China to Iran and Germany. According to the organizers, they have already received a lot of bright and original works. The videos with the perfromances of the sonnets will be uploaded to the YouTube channel of the project every weekday.

The main objective of the project is to strengthen friendly and professional ties, exchange experience and new ideas. In addition, participants will get acquainted with theatrical education that exists in the world, with the features of different theater schools. The key result of the project should be the desire of students and teachers of theatrical educational institutions from around the world to understand, rethink and create a new artistic interpretation of Shakespeare's poetry.

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