Scenography - The Theatre Design Website

Award winning Writer, Editor and Director Randy Gener (also Scenofest Press Team Leader) writes retrospectively about the 2007 Prague Quadrennial at the Theatre Communications Group Website. The article discusses the history and political background (and future) of the PQ, and also explores America’s past and present exhibits at the PQ. A must read for 2007 PQ participants and visitors.

All the World’s a Pavillion

If you are a user of the social networking website Facebook and you were at the Prague Quadrennial 2007 then you might want to visit the “I was at PQ07” Facebook group.

The official Prague Quadrennial website (www.pq.cz) has released details of the visitor numbers to the 2007 Prague Quadrenial. Almost 23,000 people attended the 11th International Exhibition of Scenography and Theatre Architectur, of that number 5,000 are thought to have been registered participants. Visit the PQ website for more details.

The winners of the Golden Triga of the 11th Prague Quadrennial is Russia. Widely regarded around the Industrial Palace as one of the best presented exhibits the Russian curators used Russia’s favourite playwright Anton Chekov work as a design concept for their extraordinary display.

Other winning entries follow:

• Portugal - (Gold) Best stage design
• Mexico - (Gold) Best costume design
• Germany - (Gold) Best realisation of a production design
• South Africa - (Gold) Best realisation of a production design
• Latvia - (Gold) Best exposition
• Slovakia - (Gold) Best use of theatre technology
• Spain - (Gold) Best Theatre Architectur

UNESCO Prizes

• Four schools were awarded UNESCO prizes: DAMU, Czech Republic, Aristotle, Greece (Two awards), Chile and Serbia

By Corinne Robinson & Nikos Kalaitzidis, photograph by Nikos Kalaitzidis.

Heavy rain and hail flooded some parts of the national exhibits yesterday, while the cooling showers were a bonus for most in and around the PQ a number of the national and school exhibitors found themselves rescuing model boxes and costumes from the rain. At close of day yesterday it was unclear as to whether the schools exhibit would reopen for Saturday but the hard work of the volounteers and in some cases visitors who lent a hand paid off and the PQ is fully open today.

Photograph by Ben Tevelow