Shakespearean playhouse reopens doors in Poland after 400 years The curtain has gone up on an Elizabethan-style theatre with an ultra-modern twist in Poland's port city of Gdansk, built on the very spot where four centuries ago English actors performed masterpieces by the great English bard Shakespeare, albeit on a more humble stage. The Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre's unparalelled "jewel box" design by Italian architecht Renato Rizzi features a dark brick neo-Gothic style exterior with a retractable roof that swings open to the sky like a draw-bridge. Supported by Britain's Prince Charles, the theatre was inaugurated on Friday. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES