Nominations for the 2024 Theatre Critics' Awards
The magazine Svět a divadlo has published the nominations for the Theatre Critics Awards for 2024. The awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 16 at the Na zábradlí Theatre.
STAGE OF THE YEAR 2024
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK: RUSALKA
musical production by Marko Ivanović, direction and set by David Radok, dramaturgy by Patricie Částková, costumes by Zuzana Ježková, lighting design by Přemysl Janda, choreography by Andrea Miltnerová, National Theatre Brno - Janáček Theatre, 5.4.2024
MICHAL HÁBA ACCORDING TO GEORG BÜCHNER: VOJCEK_A ONE-DIMENSIONAL MAN
directed by M. Hába, dramaturgy by Veronika Linka, set design by Andrea Černá, music by Jindřich Čížek, Laughing Beasts, 27.1.2024
IVAN WERNISCH, JAN NEBESKÝ, JANA SLOUKOVA: WERNISCH
directed by J. Nebeský, dramaturgy by J. Slouková, set by J. Nebeský and Petra Vlachynská, costumes by P. Vlachynská, music by Aleš Březina, National Theatre Prague and JEDL at the New Stage, June 13th and 14th, 2024
FEMALE ACTING PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR 2024
DENISA BAREŠOVA (EMA BOVARYOVA)
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary, directed by Tomáš Loužný, National Theatre Prague – Estates Theatre
TERESA DOČKALOVA
Esther Bol: Mom, directed by Tomáš Soldán, Theatre under Palmovkou
BARBARA LUKESOVA (MARY TYRONOVA)
Eugene O'Neill: Long Day's Journey Into Night, directed by Ivan Buraj, Divadlo v Dlouhá
MALE ACTING PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR 2024
MARK KRISTIÁN HOCHMAN (VOJCEK)
Michal Hába based on Büchner: Woyzeck_one-dimensional man, directed by Michal Hába, Laughing Bestien
ROBERT MIKLUŠ (HENDRIK HÖFGEN)
Klaus Mann, Marián Amsler: Mephisto, directed by Marián Amsler, National Theatre – State Opera
MARTIN PECHLÁT (CASANOVA)
Lucie Trmíková: Casanova, directed by Jan Nebeský, JEDL
THEATRE OF THE YEAR 2024
THEATRE ON THE RAILING
ROOF THEATRE PETRA BEZRUČE
ŠVANDA'S THEATRE ON SMÍCHOV
FIRST PRESENTED CZECH PLAY OF THE YEAR 2024
PETR ERBES, BORIS JEDINAK, AND COL.: GOD IN LAS VEGAS
directed by the authors and presented by the Na zábradlí Theatre
ONDŘEJ NOVOTNÝ: PHILOCTETES. LAST MINUTE
in the dramaturgy of the author and Lenka Havlíková and directed by Ondřej Štefaňák, performed by the X10 Theatre
KLÁRA VLASÁKOVA: LIARS
dramaturgy by Maria Špalová and direction by Natália Deáková, performed by the Letí Theatre
SCENEGRAPHY OF THE YEAR 2024
BERTA DOUBKOVA (expedition)
Albert Lamorisse, Vít Peřina et al.: The Red Balloon, directed by Michaela Homolová, Naive Theatre Liberec
PETR VÍTEK (scene)
Euripides: Medea, directed by Jakub Šmíd, National Moravian-Silesian Theatre Ostrava – Antonín Dvořák Theatre
PETRA VLACHYNSKÁ (costumes)
Ivan Wernisch, Jan Nebeský, Jana Slouková: Wernisch, directed by Jan Nebeský, National Theatre Prague and JEDL – New Stage
MUSIC OF THE YEAR 2024
ALES BREZINA
Ivan Wernisch, Jan Nebeský, Jana Slouková: Wernisch, directed by Jan Nebeský, National Theatre Prague and JEDL – New Stage
JINDŘICH ČÍŽEK
Michal Hába based on Büchner: Woyzeck_one-dimensional man, directed by Michal Hába, Laughing Bestien
MARTIN E. KYSPERSKÝ
Pavel Klusák, Dora Štědroňová, Jan Mikulášek, Martin E. Kyšperský: Inside a Banana, directed by Jan Mikulášek, Na zábradlí Theatre
TALENT OF THE YEAR 2024
VOJTĚCH FRANCŮ (actor, composer and author)
KAROLÍNA KNĚZŮ (actress)
DAVID PETRŽELKA (actor)
In the non-awarded category of "greatest experience from foreign theatre", two productions came in first place in the poll: Leoš Janáček's opera The Makropulos Affair , which was performed by the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden in a musical production by Robert Jindra and directed by Claus Guth and was seen at the Janáček Brno 2024 festival, and the Euripidean variation Medea's Children , which was performed by Milo Rau with children and the NTGent ensemble and was seen at the Prague Crossroads 2024 festival.
65 critics participated in the survey: Marcela Benoni, Pavla Bergmannová, Veronika Boušová, Natálie Bulvasová, Ladislav Čumba, Kateřina Dolenská, Lukáš Dubský, Barbora Etlíková, Marina Feltlová, Josefína Formanová, Helena Grégrová, Jan Grulich, Eliška Hankovcová, Iva Heribanová, Josef Herman, Veronika Holečková, Zdeňka Horváthová, Radmila Hrdinová, Vladimír Hulec, David Chaloupka, Petra Janák Zachatá, Vladimír Just, Jan Kerbr, Petr Klarin Klár, Jiří P.Kříž, Tomáš Kubart, Radka Kunderová, Kateřina Kykalová, Jiří Landa, Tatiana Lazorčáková, Rudo Leška, Marek Lollok, Marcela Magdová, Martin Macháček, Jana Machalická, Nina Malíková, Luboš Mareček, Vladimír Mikulka, Michal Novák, Jana Paterová, Eliška Raiterová, Dominik Rathan, Kateřina Rathouská, Josef Rubeš, Barbora Sedláková, Barbora Schneiderová, Jana Soprová, Karolína Stehlíková, Hana Strejčková, Lenka Šaldová, Pavel Širmer, Ema Šlechtová, Jakub Škorpil, Tomáš Šťástka, Zděněk A. Tichý, Štěpán Truhlařík, Roman Vašek, Kristýna Vinařová, Vojtěch Voska, Ladislav Vrchovský, Tobiáš Waller, Vít Závodský, Marie Zdeňková, Ivan Žáček, Ester Žantovská.