MARK RAVENHILL AWARD

The award is given to the best production of a new play in Czech theatres. New plays are defined as works written within the past ten years prior to the award ceremony. The awarded production is selected by the Centre for Contemporary Drama Festival Board. The main criterion for awarding a production is „the symbiosis of the qualities of the text and the qualities of its staging“.

Mark Ravenhill Award 2011

Selection was made out of 130 productions of new plays in Czech theatres. The award was given out in the presence of Mark Ravehhill on 15th March, 2012.

The awarded production:

Ewald Palmetshofer: hamlet is dead. no gravity

Činoherní Studio Ústí nad Labem – www.cinoherak.cz, stage direction: David Šiktanc

“The Činoherní Studio managed to open up the originally winded play in an unexpectedly persuasive manner, and transform it into a lively, entertaining and in key moments also disturbing production. The stage director David Šiktanc leads six actors to create and rigorously preserve figures that were typologically clearly defined, albeit caricatured, but nevertheless absolutely consistent. The art of sharing an ecstatic emotion, and not falling into psychological pettiness, similarly as the ability to be witty without unnecessary joke cracking or trivial situation comedy is also significantly important.” (Festival Board Evaluation)

Nominees:

Michal Walczak: Amazonia

Buranteatr Brno, stage direction: Mikoláš Tyc

David Gieselmann: The Pigeons

HaDivadlo Brno, stage direction: Marián Amsler

Petr Kolečko: Case Maryša

A Studio Rubín Prague, stage direction: Daniel Špinar

Peter Handke: Underground Blues

Pražské komorní divadlo – Divadlo Komedie Prague, stage direction: Dušan D. Pařízek

Falk Richter: The Failure

HaDivadlo Brno, stage direction: Marián Amsler

Petr Kolečko: The Eggs

Teatro NoD Prague, stage direction: Tomáš Svoboda

Roman Sikora: The Confession of a Masochist

Divadlo Letí Prague, stage direction: Martina Schlegelová

Festival Board – Centre for Contemporary Drama:

Vladimír Čepek, Činoherní studio Ústí nad Labem

Martina Černá, Arts and Theatre Institute Prague

Vladimír Fekar, City Theatre Zlín

Vladimír Mikulka, critic

Iva Mikulová, critic

Daniel Přibyl, New Stage – National Theatre Prague

Vít Pokorný, Theatre Faculty, Academy of Performing Arts Prague

Marie Špalová, Letí Theatre Prague

Mark Ravenhill Award 2010

Selection was made out of 80 productions of new plays in Czech theatres. The award was given out in the presence of Mark Ravehhill on 15th April, 2011.

The awarded production: