Just one other play has won both the jury and audience prize in the festival's history: the Krétakör's performance of The Seagull in 2004.
Sándor Zsótér was named the best director at this year's POSZT. Prizes went to the actors Lili Monori, Béla Pintér, Emese Vasvári and Tibor Pálffy.
This year's POSZT concluded with a professional forum at which the convention organisers said they do not wish for POSZT to become an international event when Pécs takes the European Capital of Culture title in 2010. Though the organisers welcomed foreign productions to the convention's OFF programme, they argued that the city has just one theatre which can show productions with high technical demands. The organisers also decided to require that performances in competition allow for an audience of at least a hundred people.
This year's winner, The Frankenstein Plan, was shown to an audience of less than 20 members of the public at its two performances on the convention programme.
POSZT 2008 AWARDS
Best Performance:
Kornél Mundruczó and Yvette Bíró:
The Frankenstein Plan
Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Bárka Theatre, Budapest
Best director:
Sándor Zsótér
Friedrich Dürrenmatt: The Visit
József Attila Theatre, Budapest
Best Actress in a Leading Role:
Lili Monori
Kornél Mundruczó and Yvette Bíró: The Frankenstein Plan
Bárka Theatre, Budapest
Best Actor in a Leading Role:
Béla Pintér
Béla Pintér: Demon's Children
Béla Pintér and His Company, Budapest
Best Actress in a Supporting Role:
Emese Vasvári
Tamás Dömötör: Sugarshow
Kamara Savaria, Szombathely
Best Actor in a Supporting Role:
Tibor Pálffy
Witold Gombrowicz: Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy
Tamási Áron Tehatre, Sepsiszentgyörgy
Best Stage Design:
Levente Bagossy
János Térey: Tablemusic
Radnóti Miklós Theatre, Budapest
Best Costume Design:
the award was not presented by the jury, but a Special Award went to
Márta Béres, Andrea Erdélyi, Imre Elek Mikes, Árpád Mészáros
The Company of Anrdás Urbán: Urbi et Orbi
Kosztolányi Dezső Theatre, Subotica
Special Award for Best Collective Work:
András Vinnai - Viktor Bodó: An armchair
Móricz Zsigmond Theatre, Nyíregyháza
Awards given by the MASZK Actors' Union of Hungary - Jury of Actors:
Best Male Performance:
Zsolt Anger
Tamás Dömötör: Sugarshow
Kamara Savaria, Szombathely
Best Female Performance:
Andrea Ladányi
Friedrich Dürrenmatt: The Visit
József Attila Theatre, Budapest
Awards by Fidelio-Súgó:
Best Actress under 30:
Kata Bartsch
Dennis Kelly: Love & Money
Nézőpont Theatre, Székelyudvarhely
Best Actor under 30:
András Ötvös, Bálint Jaskó, Gál Vince Zrínyi, Erzsébet Jelinek, Bea Lass
members of KoMa
László Garaczi: Plasma
KoMa, Budapest
Audience Award:
Kornél Mundruczó and Yvette Bíró:
The Frankenstein Plan
Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Bárka Theatre, Budapest
Photo: Máté Nándorfi
