We now know the winning productions of the 2022 Nová dráma/New Drama festival
The festival of contemporary drama took place in Bratislava from 16 until 21 May.
|Bratislava, 21 May 2022| – This past week, Bratislava lived a life of contemporary drama. The capital city witnesses the productions of nine theatre companies that were competing for festival prizes. Who are the winners of the individual awards?
Last week, the well-known festival of new drama took place in Bratislava theatres, highlighting new directions and tendencies in the field. “This year, the main programme was supplemented by several side events. The key one was a continuous stage reading of plays written by contemporary Ukrainian authors. The plays were read by Slovak playwrights with the aim of promoting peace, harmony, and the end of the war in our neighbouring country. This topic was extended also by means of the international conference co-organized by the Theatre Institute and the ITI Worldwide, which focused on the theme of “Contemporary Freedom and the New Crisis of Theatre Between Ideological Extremism and the ‘Cancel Culture’”, said Vladislava Fekete, director of the Theatre Institute.
Nine productions competed for festival prizes
The dramaturgy board of the 2022 Nová dráma/New Drama festival – Zuzana Spodniaková (theatre critic), Milo Juráni (theatre critic and theatrologist), and Max Sobek (theatre director) – made its selection from over 70 productions made using contemporary dramatic texts in Slovak professional theatres, with premiere dates ranging from 1 February 2021 until 28 February 2022. Nine productions were invited to participate in the festival.
The winning productions of the 18th Nová dráma/New Drama festival
During the festival, six prizes were awarded for productions and other awards were handed out to the winners of the DRAMA 2021 competition.
GRAND PRIX NOVÁ DRÁMA/NEW DRAMA
P. O. Hviezdoslav Theatre
Collective work: Generation Z – Unparalleled Beauty
Directed by: Zuzana Fialová
Selected by the festival jury including Patrice Pavis (theatrologist, professor), Katarzyna Pilarska (culture manager, journalist), and Michaela Pašteková (aesthetician and critic).
SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE JURY
Awarded for a dialogue between nature, music, and the environment, which resulted in a poetic representation of personal stories that each of us can identify with.
NUDE THEATRE
Libuša Bachratá, Jana Bučka, Veronika Malgot, Lýdia Ondrušová: The Field – devised, agrarian stage work exploring heredity in ancestral lines
Directed by: Veronika Malgot
SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE JURY
Awarded for the creation of a work which consistently interconnects the text, stage design, and acting performance.
DPM Theatre
Lenka Garajová: Smugglers
Directed by: Šimon Ferstl
SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE JURY
Awarded for the dramaturgy and visual concept of the space.
GAFFA
Collective work: The Cremator
Directed by: Alexandra Bolfová
BRATISLAVA AUDIENCE AWARD
NUDE THEATRE
Libuša Bachratá, Jana Bučka, Veronika Malgot, Lýdia Ondrušová: The Field – devised, agrarian stage work exploring heredity in ancestral lines
Directed by: Veronika Malgot
Selected by the spectators who voted after each production.
STUDENT JURY AWARD
NUDE THEATRE
Libuša Bachratá, Jana Bučka, Veronika Malgot, Lýdia Ondrušová: The Field – devised, agrarian stage work exploring heredity in ancestral lines
Directed by: Veronika Malgot
Selected by the members of the student critical platform led by theatre critic Karel Král.
PRIZES OF THE DRAMA 2021 CONTEST
1st prize: Tomáš Hájek for his text Sammuma
1st prize: Dominik Reisel for his text People Will Never Die
2nd prize was not awarded
3rd prize: Jakub Čermák for his text Everyone Deserves a Purgatory
Prizes of the organizers and partners of the DRAMA 2021 contest:
The Radio Devín Award was not awarded.
The Award of the Drama department of the Slovak National Theatre: Dominik Reisel for his text People Will Never Die
The Award of the Ján Palárik Theatre in Trnava was not awarded.
The Award of the Drama department of the State Theatre Košice was not awarded.
The Studio 12 Award: Matej Trnovec for his text AZUL.
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