At the age of 83, theater set designer Ján Dušek died on Monday, who in November won the Thalia Award for extraordinary contribution to the theater, awarded by the Academy of Theater Artists. he writes about him as a significant personality of Czech scenography. Dušek graduated scenography at DAMU in the class of prof. František Tröster, he was a teacher at the school from 1977 and later became the head of the scenography department.
A significant stage was his engagement in Ostrava. His designs for stage decorations, space and costumes always brought an original and concise solution to the productions, deliberately restrained, describing the atmosphere of the plot. Last but not least, they brought unusual material to the stage – ropes, canvases, carpets, cardboard papers, etc., which significantly enable variability and communicate with the actors and dancers through their functionality. He designed more than five hundred expeditions.
