Shakespeare Award for Pole
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
21.02.2019 09:44
The director of the Shakespearean Theatre in Gdańsk, northern Poland, Jerzy Limon, has received the Pragnell Shakespeare Award.
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Introduced in 1990, the honour is an international award funded by Pragnell the Jeweller of Stratford upon Avon.
It is presented annually at the Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations luncheon in Stratford-upon-Avon, the great writer’s birthplace, on April 27.
The award recognises “outstanding achievement in extending the appreciation and enjoyment of the works of William Shakespeare and in the general advancement of Shakespearean knowledge and understanding.”
Sixty-eight-year-old Jerzy Limon is a professor at the University of Gdańsk.
He has published extensively on drama and theatre. His literary output includes translations of several English plays into Polish as well as four novels.
In the early 1990s he discovered traces of a Shakespearean playhouse in Gdańsk which resembled the Fortune Theatre in London. He came up with the idea of reconstructing the theatre, and has served as its director since its opening in 2014.
He holds numerous honours, including the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
The Roll of Honour of the Pragnell Shakespeare Award includes such household names as Peggy Ashcroft, Peter Brook, Trevor Nunn and Kenneth Branagh. (mk/pk)