Ladislav Smoček
Born (1932-08-24) 24 August 1932
Prague
NationalityCzech
Occupation(s)Theatre director, playwright, writer

Ladislav Smoček (born 24 August 1932, Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech writer, playwright and theater director.

Biography

He comes from a family with a military tradition. His father was an officer in The Czechoslovakian Army. After studying at a secondary school in Plzeň he graduated as a theatre director from the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU) in 1956. His schoolmate there was for example Václav Hudeček and one of his professors was for also  František Salzer.[1] He started his career in The City Theatre in Benešov (1956–1957), then he was active in Brno (1957–1960) and in 1960 got a place as a director in Laterna magika in Prague. And after few more years he decided to move to the National theatre company where he in 1965 co-founded The Drama Club (Činoherní klub), where he remains employed as a playwright and director until the present. In the period between 1992 – 1993 he was a director of the Vinohrady Theatre and he acted there as a director on a few occasions since that time.[2] Though he wrote less than ten plays, he is together with Václav Havel and Pavel Kohout one of the most performed Czech playwrights.

Plays

  • Piknik (1965) (opening performance of The Drama Club /DC/)
  • Dr. Burke's Strange Afternoon (1966) (translated into fourteen languages[3])
  • The Maze (1966) (one act)
  • Bitva na Kopci (?) (one act)
  • Cosmic Spring (1970)
  • The Noose (1972) (written in English)
  • Nejlepší den (1995) (the only play performed in Plzeň instead of DC)

Selected performances – director

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Petr Hořec, Milan Neděla: Rozpomínky, Goldstein & Goldstein, Prague, 1997, str. 36, ISBN 80-86094-12-X
  2. ↑ Z. Sílová, R. Hrdinová, A. Kožíková, V. Mohylová : Divadlo na Vinohradech 1907 – 2007 – Vinohradský ansámbl, issued by Divadlo na Vinohradech, Prague, 2007, str. 193, ISBN 978-80-239-9604-3
  3. ↑ "Činoherní klub". Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
  4. ↑ "ARCHIV | Divadlo Ungelt".

Literature

  • Petr Hořec, Milan Neděla: Rozpomínky, Goldstein & Goldstein, Prague, 1997, str. 36, ISBN 80-86094-12-X
  • Z. Sílová, R. Hrdinová, A. Kožíková, V. Mohylová : Divadlo na Vinohradech 1907 – 2007 – Vinohradský ansámbl, issued by Divadlo na Vinohradech, Prague, 2007, str. 117, 119, 124, 127, 136, 139, 144, 150, 189, 191, 193, ISBN 978-80-239-9604-3
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