The Winter’s Tale - a Play about Staging a Play

The British Council and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Adjara Autonomous Republic have jointly implemented a number of significant projects as part of the Performing Arts Support Program. These projects and initiatives serve to encourage the development of the performing arts sector and improvement of audience engagement in Adjara.

On 21 November 2015 The Winter’s Tale, a British-Georgian coproduction, opens at the Batumi State Drama Theatre- the first partnership work of the Batumi State Drama Theatre and London’s Unicorn Theatre. Tarek Iskander, the British director recommended by the Unicorn, has been working on the play all summer.

The play by Ignace Cornelissen is about staging a play by Shakespeare. The show demonstrates staging the Shakespeare’s play in the theatre and how personal relationships develop during the work.

This is the second collaboration jointly supported by the British Council and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Adjara between the British and Georgian theatres. Theatre lovers in Batumi will probably remember the Georgian re-staging of The Zero Hour, an amazing, innovative screening theatre from Britain. This was the first coproduction supported as a part of the Performing Arts Support Program.

The Winter’s Tale is yet another example of the success of cooperation aimed at the exchange of creative ideas and development of the capacity of the theatres in Georgia, specifically in Adjara.

Venue: Batumi State Drama Theatre, 18 Ahmed Melashvili Street

Opening on 21 November 2015

Beginning: 19:00