2022 Theatre Critics‘ Awards
The Dejvice Theatre in Prague won the main award at the 2022 Theatre Critics’ Awards, which took place on 11 March 2023. The best play is Daniel Majling’s The Last of the Soviets directed by Michal Vajdička at the Dlouhá Theatre. The awards are based on the poll organized by World and Theatre magazine with 84 participating theatre critics.
Winners of the 2022 Theatre Critics’ Awards:
- Shows:
Svetlana Alexievich, Daniel Majling: The Last of the Soviets
Director: Michal Vajdička
Dlouhá Theatre Praha, premiere 3 March 2022
Annotation: Tragicomical immersion in the Russian soul, inspired by the Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich’s book Secondhand Time - Best Actress:
Pavlína Štorková
The role of poetess Sylvia Plath in The Wife of the Published Poet
Studio Hrdinů Praha
Annotation: Jan Horák’s authorial project is based on the life and work of American poetess and prose writer Sylvia Plath and is the last part of the trilogy dedicated to 20th-century artists. - Best actor:
Ivan Trojan
The role of David from Fifty
Dejvice Theatre Praha
Annotation: Everybody knows how the second round of the presidential election in January 2018 ended [Miloš Zeman won the second round of the presidential election in 2018 over Jiří Drahoš]. This play will tell you what massacre the result represented in the life of David Prebinger, the freelance architect, the unsuccessful organizer of threesomes, the recently divorced essayist of our time, and the loser with a good heart
Jan Vondráček
The role of Major Alexeev from The Last of the Soviets
Dlouhá Theatre Praha
Annotation: see above - Best Theatre:
Dejvice Theatre Prague
Description: The Dejvice Theatre celebrates thirty years in October 2022. It has built a reputation as one of the most popular and frequently visited Czech theatres. Being almost permanently sold out (its chamber capacity is not the only reason), it offers shows of various genres that share good theatre with clear opinions and an emphasis on best actors. - Czech Play Staged for the First Time:
Petr Zelenka: Fifty
Dejvice Theatre Praha - Stage Desing:
Marek Cpin – set design
Dictionary of the Khazars
Goose on the String Theatre Brno - Tereza Gsöllhoferová and Eva Justichová – stage design
We Must Live
Pomezí Project Praha - Music:
Matouš Hejl
Opera Ibsen/Ghosts
JEDL Prague Theatre Studio - The talent of the Year:
Anežka Šťastná – actress
Zdislava Začalová – actress
Source: divadlo.cz
Photo: The Last of the Soviets, Divadlo v Dlouhé Theatre
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