Production Awards
PRODUCTIONS
Ivan Arsenjev, Veronika Švábová, Petr Forman: OBLUDÁRIUM [FREAK SHOW]
directed by Petr Forman, set and costumes by Josef Sodomka, Anti Sodomková, choreography by Veronika Švábová and company, music by Marko Ivanović, Jarda Svoboda, Old Masters etc…, Divadlo Bratří Formanů [Forman Brothers Theatre]
BEST ACTRESS
SOŇA ČERVENÁ
Aleš Březina – Jiří Nekvasil: Zítra se bude… [Tomorrow they’ll...], directed by Jiří Nekvasil, musical director Marko Ivanović, Národní divadlo Praha – opera [Opera Department of the National Theatre in Prague]
BEST ACTOR
JAROMÍR DULAVA (The Chairman)
Milan Kundera: Ptákovina [Pricking], directed by Ladislav Smoček, Činoherní klub, Prague
BEST THEATRE
ČINOHERNÍ KLUB, Prague
BEST CZECH PLAY
VÁCLAV HAVEL: ODCHÁZENÍ [LEAVING]
Produced by Theatre Archa, Prague, directed by David Radok
BEST SET DESIGN
DAVID RADOK and JAROMÍR VLČEK
Václav Havel: Odcházení [Leaving], directed by David Radok, Theatre Archa, Praha
BEST STAGE MUSIC
ALEŠ BŘEZINA
Aleš Březina – Jiří Nekvasil: Zítra se bude… [Tomorrow they’ll...], directed by Jiří Nekvasil, musical director Marko Ivanović, Národní divadlo Praha – opera [Opera Department of the National Theatre in Prague]
TALENT OF THE YEAR
ŠTĚPÁN PÁCL – director
Playwriting Competition – the 2008 Annual Competition for a best play in Czech or Slovak language organized jointly by the Foundation Fund for Alfréd Radok Awards and the Aura-Pont Theatre and Literary Agency:
There were 48 entries by 43 authors submitted for the 17th year of the anonymous Alfréd Radok Playwriting Competition.
Following ten texts and authors were shortlisted:
Eva Prchalová – Ažura [Ladder Cross-Stitch]
Vít Pokorný – Noční můra velkoměsta [A City Nightmare]
Jiří Homola – Homo Sanctus
Martin Osif – Svaté ostatky [Holy Remains]
Josef Rubeš – Panství [The Domain]
Tomáš Srb – Bílé vrány [Rare Birds]
Daniela Fischerová – 12 způsobů mizení [12 Manners of Disappearing]
Pavel Trtílek – Večer umělců [A Night of Artists]
Dodo Gombár – Bez boha dom [A House Without God]
Vladislava Fekete – Krátké spojenia [Shortcuts]
The final decision of the jury was as follows:
1st Prize: Vladislava Fekete: Krátke spojenia [Shortcuts]
2nd Prize: Eva Prchalová: Ažura [Ladder Cross-Stitch]
3rd Prize: Daniela Fischerová: 12 způsobů mizení [12 Manners of Disappearing]
For the fourth time, Czech Radio 3 – Vltava awarded its Special Prize to a text it plans to broadcast. The station director Lukáš Hurník handed over the Prize to Ms Vladislava Fekete for her play Shortcuts.
A new feature is a collaboration with Jihočeské divadlo in České Budějovice that decided to produce one of the entries submitted to this year’s competition and open it as this season’s last premiere on May 6, 2009. The play – again Shortcuts by Vladislava Fekete - will be directed by Petr Štindl.
The theatre review Svět a divadlo [The World and the Theatre] will publish two of the plays submitted: Shortcuts by Vladislava Fekete and 12 Manners of Disappearing by Daniela Fischerová.
Brno-based publishing house Větrné mlýny [Windmills] became a new partner of the drama competition: it will publish three of the shortlisted entries (Eva Prchalová: Ladder Cross-Stich, Josef Rubeš: The Domain, and Dodo Gombár: A House Without God) in its Contemporary Czech Plays series.
The prize-winning texts, as well as the other anonymous entries in Alfréd Radok Playwriting Competition are available at http://www.cenyradoka.cz together with more information on the Alfréd Radok 2008 Awards.
All the winning texts are represented by Aura-Pont.