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PQ 2003 JURY FINAL PROTOCOL
By André Perinetti and Ian Herbert, edited by Delbert Unruh
Published in TD&T, Vol. 39 No.4 (Fall 2003)
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2003 JURY
FINAL PROTOCOL
At the awards ceremony for PQ 2003, held on the stage of Laterna Magika, June 16, 2003, the jury presented
prizes to twenty-five countries or individuals. The award-winning exhibits are pictured on the following pages.
After opening and introductory speeches, André-Louis Perinetti, chair of the jury, began the awards
ceremony. His comments and the description of the individual awards read out by Ian Herbert, secretary
of the jury, perfectly expressed, I believe, the reasoning and deliberations of the jury. They are reproduced
here in their entirety. – Del Unruh
André-Louis Perinetti: The tenth Prague Quadrennial has equaled, if not bettered, the success of its predecessors in providing a meeting point for practitioners, students, and lovers of theatre design and architecture. Under one
magnificent roof are thousands of opportunities for stimulus and reflection, as well as sheer enjoyment of the
“Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of Theatre.”
In a time when we so often come up against the effects of globalization, PQ 2003 is very much the symbol of
that cultural diversity which brings us together in the never-ending search for our shared humanity.
The jury salutes the organizers of PQ and thanks them for the friendly efficiency with which they have
helped to make our difficult task a pleasure. The smooth running of the exhibition and its associated events is all
the more remarkable when we remember that less than a year ago flood waters were inundating many of
Prague’s theatres, even approaching the PQ exhibition ground itself. If we were able to award a medal for brav-
MEMBERS OF THE JURY: PQ 2003
Sharon Cort — Stage and costume designer, writer, theatre and film director, screenwriter, producer, teacher
…we established a
(Republic of South Africa)
Dionisis Fotopoulos – Stage and costume designer, film designer (Greece)
Kazue Hatano –Stage and costume designer, teacher (Japan)
Ian Herbert – Theatre theoretician, critic, and editor of Theatre Record Magazine (Great Britain)
Jirì Kotalìk – Art historian, architect, teacher (Czech Republic)
Valerij Leventhal – Stage and costume designer (Russia)
Alejandro Luna – Stage designer, architect (Mexico)
Leszek Madżik – Stage and costume designer, director, teacher (Poland)
Hartmut Meyer – Stage and costume designer, teacher (Germany)
André-Louis Perinetti – Director and theatre manager, Secretary General of ITI, UNESCO delegate (France)
Delbert Unruh – Stage designer, theatre theoretician, teacher (United States)
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firm rule that jury
members could not vote
or speak in support of
work from their own
countries. And we have
kept strictly to that rule.
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BEST REALIZED PROJECT IN
THE THEATRE ARCHITECTURE
ery, courage, and sheer devoted effort, we would offer it with all our hearts to the Czech theatre
community. We should also like to offer a welcome to those countries who have not been represented at PQ before, hoping that they already feel that they are not strangers in PQ’s paradise: India,
Oceania, Peru and Taiwan.
The members of this year’s jury were myself, André-Louis Perinetti, from France, representing
UNESCO, Sharon Cort (South Africa), Dionysis Fotopoulos (Greece), Kazue Hatano (Japan), Ian Herbert
(United Kingdom), Jirì Kotalìk (Czech Republic), Valerij Leventhal (Russia), Alejandro Luna
(Mexico), Leszek Madżik (Poland), Hartmut Meyer (Germany), and Delbert Unruh (United States).
Before I call on my colleague Ian Herbert, secretary of the jury and President of the International Association of Theatre Critics, to read out the list of our awards, you should know one secret
of the jury room: we established a firm rule that jury members could not vote or speak in support of work
from their own countries. And we have kept strictly to that rule.
Ian Herbert: Thank you André. May I say that the jury recognizes the work of every single competitor
in the PQ, and is aware that many of you, from large countries as well as small, have faced and overcome
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great difficulties to be here, be they problems of finance, health, travel or sheer international bureaucracy. You are all winners in our eyes. Unfortunately we cannot give you each a prize.
So the jury has recommended to the PQ 2003 council that the following prizes be awarded.
The Architecture prizes were for the best realized theatre project in that section. We have
awarded two honorary diplomas, two silver medals and a gold medal. An honorary diploma goes to Russia, to the team responsible for the creation of the School of Dramatic Art in Moscow, which took an old
cinema and put into it a building which has the true scent of theatre. The second [honorary diploma]
goes to Sweden, for the two spectacular site-related projects in their well-presented exhibit.
GOLD MEDAL
Italy
(Renzo Piano; Parco della Musica, Rome)
SILVER MEDAL
Spain (Catalonia)
(Francesco Guàrdià, Ñunez Yanowsky;
Lliure Theatre, Barcelona)
Switzerland
(Laurids and Manfred Ortner;
Schiffbau, Zurich)
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HONORARY DIPLOMA
Russia
(A. Vassilev, S. Gusarev, I. Popov, B. Thor;
School of Dramatic Art, Moscow)
Sweden
(Total Exhibit)
PHOTOS BY ERIC FIELDING
SPAIN
ITALY
SWITZERLAND
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A silver medal goes to Spain (Catalonia) for the work of Francesco Guàrdià and
Ñunezs Janowsky in converting the Palau de Agricultura in Barcelona into a magnificent new home for the Theatre Lliure; and another [silver medal goes] to Switzerland. The Swiss exhibit does not reveal all its treasures at once, but it is worth
taking the time to see the dramatic realization of the project by Laurids and
Manfred Ortner, to make a cultural centre, Schiffbau, out of an old shipbuilding
hall for the Schauspielhaus Zurich.
We argued about whether the next winner was a theatre project, but it was
for almost all of us the best realized project in the section. So the gold medal goes
to Italy, for Renzo Piano’s great Parco della Musica in Rome.
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In the search for Best Theatre Costume, we found two candidates for honorary diplomas, a silver and a gold medallist. The diplomas went to Chang Hye-Suk for the simplicity of her Korean
interpretations of Die Zauberflöte; and to Doina Levintza of Romania
who gave us a crowd of theatrical characters, all on her own, showing
great wit and invention. The silver medal goes to the sketches and costumes for some very exotic animal characters in Deer Women and
Rhino, by Tarja Simonen from Finland. There was high praise for both
the sketches and the use of materials in the work of the gold medal
winner, a set of costumes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream designed
by Nicky Gillibrand of the United Kingdom.
TARJA SIMONEN
BEST THEATRE COSTUME
CHANG HYE-SUK
GOLD MEDAL
Nicky Gillibrand
(United Kingdom,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
SILVER MEDAL
Tarja Simonen
(Finland,
Deer Woman and Rhino )
DOINA LEVINTZA
HONORARY DIPLOMA
Chang Hye-Suk
(Korea, Die Zauberflöte)
Doina Levintza
(Romania, Costume Collection)
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BEST COMPLEX REALIZATION
OF A SINGLE PRODUCTION
GOLD MEDAL
Lars-Åke Thessman, sets
Karen Erskine, costumes
The medals for Best Complex Realization of a Single Production are for
work of a high order, but the jury regretted
that there were not more such presentations
from which to choose. The sheer scale and
brio of the Zauberflöte presented as the
complete Latvian exhibit made it impossible
to ignore the work of Ilmars Blumbergs,
and he receives the silver medal. There
were several possibilities for a gold medal,
all on the same elegant stand, and we finally
settled on Electra, the work of Lars-Åke
Thessman and Karin Erskin of Sweden.
(Sweden, Electra)
SILVER MEDAL
Ilmars Blumbergs
(Latvia, Die Zauberflöte)
HONORARY DIPLOMA
[None]
LATVIA
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RICHARD HUDSON
BEST SET DESIGN
GOLD MEDAL
Richard Hudson
(United Kingdom, Tamerlano)
SILVER MEDAL
Georgios Patsas
(Greece, Persai)
GEORGIOS PATSAS
HARRIS KAFKARIDES
HONORARY DIPLOMA
Harris Kafkarides
(Cyprys Troades)
Jorge Ballina
(Mexico several sets including
Copenhagen)
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In the category of Best Set Design
there was as always an embarras de
richesse. We decided to offer two honorary
diplomas, one for a series of designs for
theatre and opera by Jorge Ballina of
Mexico; the other for a particularly evocative set for Euripides’ Troades by Harris
Kafkarides from Cyprus. The set for another
Greek tragedy, the Persians of Aeschylus,
this one performed in one of the most famous of all Greek theatres, Epidauros, wins
the silver medal for Greece’s Georgios
Patsas. The winner of the gold medal for set
design has already shared a Golden Triga.
Now he receives a personal award for his
work on Handel’s Tamerlano for the Maggio
Musicale in Florence; born in Zimbabwe, he
is Richard Hudson of the United Kingdom.
Before announcing the winner of this
year’s Golden Triga, I want to tell you about
four honorary diplomas and four silver medals
which the jury has awarded to a number of
countries for their special contribution to this
PQ. And before that, the jury would like to explain that there are no awards for the student
exhibits in this year’s Quadrennial, because
those exhibits fall outside our remit. However,
it would not be fair to leave the student exhibits without comment, since so many of them rival the National exhibits in their vitality,
invention and wit. To single out individual students, or even schools, would be invidious and
probably counterproductive, but it will surely
not be long before we see many of the young
people whose work is causing such excitement
in the “right wing” of the exhibition making
their mark on a future “left wing.”
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Now to the Special Honorary Diplomas.
The first goes to the Canadian exhibit, for its clarity of presentation and national spirit. For quality
of presentation, and for the works presented, a
diploma goes to Greece. A slightly frivolous diploma goes to a slightly frivolous exhibit,
which brought to PQ a sense of play—and
even an element of performance—in its visitors: the stand from New Zealand. The last
honorary diploma is for the spirit of international outreach in the United States theatre exhibit, which not only featured many talented
American designers, but was also inclusive
enough to give prominence to overseas designers working in the USA.
CANADA
GREECE
NEW ZEALAND
SPECIAL HONORARY DIPLOMAS
Canada
(for its clarity and national spirit)
Greece
(for its presentation quality
and for the work of its designers)
New Zealand
(for bringing a sense of play to PQ)
United States
(for its inclusivity and internationalism)
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SPECIAL SILVER MEDALS
Netherlands
(for its modern approach in presenting vital
contemporary theatre)
Russia
(for the variety of its retrospective display of
Boris Messerer)
Taiwan
(for its sense of national identity)
Slovakia
(for its selflessness in choosing to present a
memorial to Ales Votava)
RUSSIA
TAIWAN
SLOVAKIA
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The first Special Silver Medal goes to a
stand which aroused some contradictory reactions. It was much admired as a comprehensive representation of innovative contemporary
theatre, but the jury was reluctant to see it set a
trend, which might lead in future to a hall full
of video screens presenting a “virtual PQ,”
with not a model, fabric swatch or design
sketch to be seen. But it is a beautiful and effective exhibit, and special silver medal for it
goes to the Netherlands. Another silver, for the
charm and variety of its retrospective display
of the work of Boris Messerer, is awarded to
Russia. Another, for an exhibit that brings out a
strong sense of national identity, to Taiwan.
And the final silver medal is for a homage paid
to a designer who died tragically young, Ales
Votava, who is celebrated in a act of selflessness which should have taken this exhibit out
of competition but which we wish to reward
here, by honoring Slovakia.
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Which leaves the Golden Triga. I will reveal another secret of the jury room and tell you that
the final vote for the major award of PQ was decided on our President’s casting a [tie-breaking]
vote, but I can also tell you that this was one of a huge number of attempts to name the best exhibit
in the national or theatre architecture sections. Once the selection was made, it was agreed unanimously by the whole jury. The Golden Triga for PQ 2003 is therefore awarded to a stand in the theatre section, which impressed the jury both for the high quality of its many and varied scenographic
works, and for the simple yet effective nature of its presentation of the Labyrinth of the World and
the Paradise of Theatre: it is the United Kingdom exhibit. ❖
GOLDEN TRIGA
United Kingdom
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