Petr Zelenka Personality of the Month in Divadelní noviny (Theatre News)


Petr Zelenka, author and director of the production of Theremin in the Dejvice Theatre, has been named December Personality of the Month in last year's 21st number of the theatre fortnightly Divadelní noviny. The editors justify their choice in the following way: "In his own production of his play at the Dejvice Theatre, Petr Zelenka has shown he is able to go beyond the boundaries of a mere biography. He uses the Dejvice production - based on the paradoxical life of Lev Sergeievich Theremin, the Russian inventor, musician and Soviet informer - to raise a number of essential questions concerning responsibility towards oneself and one's surroundings, the relativity of a successful life, and failure, as well as the complications of a relationship between an individual and supra-personal ideas. Petr Zelenka shows again that he is exceptional in the Czech theatre in his ability not only to write and direct effectively, but also with incomparable wit and levity." Universally positive, even enthusiastic, reviews have been carried in all the national dailies.

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