Jiří Adámek (1977) studied direction in the Department of alternative and puppet theatre at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. After a whole range of experimental, puppet projects (adaptations of Frederico Garcia Lorca` s The Love of Don Perlimplin with Belisa in the Garden and The Intruder for one actress and a lifesize marionette) and site-specific projects (Latimerie in the former sewage plant at Prague-Bubenec), Adámek has developed an original type of musical theatre, in which he blends the musically composed structure, stylized acting and unusual approach to language (fragmentarisation and rhythm of words, play with semi-abstract accumulation of syllables and sounds). Adámek is not only the director of his musical-theatre projects, but also the author of the libretto and, where required, of the music. Since the creation of his first full-length "musical-theatre" type performance, Adámek has been awarded various prizes: the international award Music Theatre Now forTicks Ticks Politics (2006) in Berlin and the Prize for original theatre expression at the KONTAKT 2009 festival in Torun, the children` s production Of the Jungle Books (2007) was awarded prizes in three categories at Mateřinka in Liberec, the Alfred Radok Prize for set design adn the main prize on the Banialuka-Festival in Bialsko-Biała. The newest production Europeans (2008) has so far been nominated for the Sazka and Theatre Newspaper Prizes. Adámek was also named Personality of the Year by the Next Wave Festival 2007 in the alternative theatre section for musical-scenic composition and its theoretical reflection. Presently Jiří Adámek teaches on the Prague theatre academy (DAMU) and writes analytical articles about contemporary theatre for the czech magazine „Svět a divadlo". |
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