DRÁMA 2024

Prizes in the 2024 DRAMA contest for best dramatic text

The closing ceremony of the 21^st Nová dráma/New Drama festival also included the announcement of the 2024 DRAMA competition of original texts written in Slovak or Czech. The winner of the 25^th contest is Lenka Čepková with her text Fine, Thank You. “Congratulations to the winner, who will receive a financial prize of 1,000 euros. The awarded dramatic texts will be published in an electronic collection, making the works accessible to theatre makers as well as the general public. The co-organizers of the competition have also awarded special prizes to selected texts, which they will subsequently stage in various forms. One of the prizes was awarded by the competition’s partner STVR – Radio Devín, which will perform the selected text in a radio adaptation,” said Anna Šoltýsová, coordinator from the Theatre Institute, the annual organizer of the DRAMA contest.

MAIN AWARDS OF THE DRAMA 2024 CONTEST:

1. Lenka Čepková: Fine, Thank You

2. Michal Belej: Cassandra

3. Ján Mičuch: Oyvind, the Cottager’s Son

SPECIAL PRIZES OF THE 2024 DRAMA CONTEST:

Studio 12 Prize: Lenka Čepková for the text Fine, Thank You

Drama Department of the Slovak National Theatre Prize: Michal Belej for the text Cassandra

Ján Palárik Theatre Prize: Marek Hudec for the text It Wasn’t An Accident

Jozef Gregor Tajovský Theatre Prize: Michal Belej for the text Cassandra

Drama Department of the National Theatre in Prague Prize: Lenka Čepková for the text Fine, Thank You

JORIK Stage of the Puppet Theatre in the Košice Region Prize: Michal Belej for the text Cassandra

Radio Devín Prize: Gabriela Gabašová for the text Escape

47 texts were submitted to enter the 2024 DRAMA contest, out of which 24 were written in Czech and 23 in Slovak. The dramatic texts were assessed by Mário Drgoňa, a dramaturgy lecturer at the Drama Department of the Slovak National Theatre; Vladislava Fekete, director of the Theatre Institute; Nina Jacques, a dramaturg of the Drama Department of the National Theatre in Prague; Lukáš Kopas, the artistic director of the Puppet Theatre of the Košice region; and Martina Mašlárová, chair of the jury, theatrologist and dramaturg of the Jan Palárik Theatre in Trnava.