“He has done a great deal of work here, which is demanding and tiring,” said Jan Burian, General Director of the National Theater. “The first Czech stage cannot be turned into an author’s theater. An important part of his work must remain a modern interpretive theater and have a solid ensemble composed of leading actors, “said ND General Director Jan Burian.
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According to its website, the National Theater Drama currently has eight productions on its repertoire, which Špinar has directed. In the coming season, he is also staging the production Beauty and the Beast, which will premiere in December, and Much Ado About Nothing with a release in May.
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He crashed against the wall
“I was not fired, we agreed very calmly. My departure is mainly related to the case No! You have to endure it at DAMU, Špinar told ČTK. According to him, the student initiative No! “It is necessary to make a fundamental change in the management of the Department of Drama Theater. It no longer corresponds to reality at all, because the independent sector also penetrates large buildings, which I am proof of, because the chief dramaturg of the play is Marta Ljubková, who graduated from Alterna and graduated from DAMU, “he said.
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Špinar stated that on Monday, August 30, he will publish a video on social networks, describing in more detail the situation of Czech theater. “I will talk more about the state of the official Czech theater, where only a few people who stay in power, for example in the case of DAMU for 30 years, decide and pull the strings.
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The head of the play claims that he “hit the wall” at the National Theater. “I have experience that people in high positions are not very interested in theater, they are quite political and very conservative, which does not benefit theater. I think theater in the world has been somewhere else for a long time. We keep making classics and we don’t know what we mean. On Monday I will describe what I have to work on. The official Czech theater scene is in a terrible state quo, we do nonsensical things and I don’t think the audience is really interested anymore. Nevertheless, I am knocking on locked doors here because it is controlled by people with conservative taste, and their practices date back to the communist period, “he added.
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His leadership extended his mandate
Špinar has been the artistic director of Činohry ND since September 2015, winning the tender over other candidates – playwright and director David Drábek from the Klicper Theater in Hradec Králové and director Ivan Krejčí from the Ostrava Arena. His mandate was extended by the ND leadership after five years.
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Špinar first studied drama acting at DAMU (1998 to 2004), where he played the role of Tim in Mark Ravenhill’s Polaroids, for which he received the Reflex Award for Best Actor at the Zlomvaz student festival. He then continued to study directing in drama at the same school (2003 to 2008), which he completed with a production of Dostoevsky’s own dramatization of the Karamazov Brothers at the Disk Theater. Immediately after graduation, he became the regular director of the Theater in Vinohrady for two seasons, where he staged Vojček Georg Büchner (2009), for which he received the Alfred Radok Award and the Josef Balvín Award, and Schiller’s Maria Stuartovna (2010). He joined the National Theater as a regular director at the beginning of the 2014/2015 season.
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