It was the 25th edition of the annual showcase, and it comprised dozens of street theatre performances, outdoor plays, puppet shows and other forms of theatre arts, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
From Saturday to Sunday, audiences at the seaside Reagan Park had an opportunity to watch a great variety of performances, from large outdoor shows to intimate performances on the outer perimeter of new circus art, and from dance theatre and experimental movement to puppetry.
Most of the events making up the 2023 FETA Festival were free to attend, according to officials.
The Polish-German co-production La Luna, which referred to the classic 1902 silent film A Trip to the Moon by Georges Méliès, was one of the programme's highlights.
"The theme of this year's performances was collective action, closeness, and human relationships," said Marta Formella, representative of the Gdańsk City Hall.
Performers dealt with such varied themes as war, domestic violence and social alienation, the PAP news agency reported.
The festival saw the return of theatre companies like Biuro Podróży [Travel Agency] and antagon theaterAKTion.
In addition, the programme also included shows for children such as: Border from the Danish theatre Dansk Rakkerpak, the musical Hop into Cosmos! (a production of Gdańsk's Archipelago of Culture in the series Theatre in the Housing Estate), Little Gothic from the Gdynia foundation Teatr Czwarte Miasto, and play-based performances by the Głowa mała theatre from the northwestern city of Szczecin.
The 2023 FETA Festival opened with Ukraine. Shevchenko's Testament by the Lviv Theater Voskresinnia – a performance which connected elements of Ukrainian national identity, culture and mythology with lives of Ukrainians who had come to Gdańsk seeking refuge from Russian aggression following the Kremlin’s February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the PAP news agency reported.
(rt/pm)
Source: PAP, FETA