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Summer Shakespeare Festival Brno

Summer Shakespeare Festivals are already an inseparable summer phenomenon in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The festival was initiated by President Václav Havel. He opened Prague Castle to artists in the early 1990s to attract the public. The first Shakespeare performance took place here in 1990 and since 1998 the festival has been held regularly. In 1999 and 2000, Václav Havel granted the festival his personal patronage.

The Summer Shakespeare Festival is the oldest and largest open-air theatre festival in Europe dedicated to the performance of the works of William Shakespeare. The festival lasts from the end of June to the beginning of September and takes place on open stages in PRAGUE (in the Supreme Purkrab of Prague Castle and since 2007 also in the courtyard of the Faculty of Music and Dance of the Academy of Performing Arts on Malostranské náměstí 13), in BRNO (Špilberk Castle), in OSTRAVA (Silesian Ostrava Castle) and in BRATISLAVA (Bratislava Castle).