Petr Kracik

Born in Trutnov, northeastern Bohemia, he trained in acting at a community conservatory from 1975–1977, then went on to study stage direction at Prague’s Academy of Music and Drama, between 1980 and 1986. Since 1992 he has been director of the Theatre pod Palmovkou in Prague, concentrating chiefly on drama productions (Shakespeare: Hamlet and The Tempest; Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men; Ibsen: Peer Gynt; Brecht: Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti; Dostoevsky: The Idiot; Lorca: The House of Bernarda Alba; Calderón: Life is a Dream; Molière: Don Juan; Gorky: Summer Guests; Tolstoy: The Power of Darkness; Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur; Pavel Kohout: Poor Murderer; Arthur Miller: A View from the Bridge; Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac; O’Neill: Mourning Becomes Electra; Dale Wasserman: One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Strindberg: Queen Christina; Lillian Hellman: Autumn Garden; Schiller: Wallenstein, and others). Apart from that, he has to his credit numerous musical theatre productions, at the Theatre pod Palmovkou (e.g., Dvořák/Wenig: The Devil and Kate; Brecht/Weill: The Threepenny Opera), at Prague’s Karlín Musical Theatre (J. Strauss: Die Fledermaus; Kálmán: Gräfin Mariza; Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns), at the Municipal Theatre in Brno (Zola/Uhde/Štědroň: Nana; Doga/Lotianu: Gypsies Go to Heaven), at Millenium Theatre (Blažek/Rychman: The Hop Pickers), and at Ústí nad Labem (Dvořák: The Jacobin).