| Title (2) | File type | Publiseringsdato | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intervju i Dagbladet med Lubos Hruza | August 29, 1979 | Download | |
| Preview article in Dagbladet about Raskolnikov, The National Theatre 1968 | Download |
Lubos Hruza
Lubos Hruza (1933-2008) was a Czech-Norwegian stage designer. Hruza worked in Norway (mainly for The National Theatre) from 1968, and stayed in Norway for approximately 20 years before moving back to The Czech Republic.
Lubos Hruza's works for the stage gained European recognition and his strongly expressive form became a source of inspiration for Norwegian theatre. Among his assignments as a stage designer are a long series of productions of Shakespeare and Ibsen, plus plays of Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Beckett and Arthur Miller.
Lubos Hruza was given Norwegian Critics' Award for theatre in 1979 for his stage design for John Gabriel Borkman for The National Theatre.
"In this we also include the recognition of what Lubos Hruza has meant for Norwegian stage design during the 1970es. It is developing into a more dynamically acting part of the performance than what we have been used to. And in this development the very Lubos Hruza, as a person and an inspiration, is a source of force."
The Sceneweb database covers productions Lubos Hruza has contributed to in Norwegian theatre.
Information
(Objekt ID 11298)| Object type | Person |
| Born | 1933 (dead December 2, 2008) |
| Functions | Stage designer, Costume designer, Visual artist |
| Nationality | Czech, Norwegian |
| Gender | Male |
Gerd Stahl, who was chief dramaturge of The National Theatre from 1986 to 2012, wrote the following, among other things, in her obituary for Lubos Hruza:
"Stage designer Lubos Hruza died in The Czech Republic December 2, aged 75.
Lubos was hired by The National Theatre October 10 1968 and immediately became an important partner in Arild Brinchmann's modernisation project for Norwegian theatre. After Brinchmann left, Lubos was established in Norway and continued his work as a stage designer for The National Theatre, but he also took assignments for The Norwegian National Opera and other Norwegian theatres. A total of 88 productions and projects are listed with his name at The National Theatre alone, in the period from 1968 to 1997, when he returned to his home country.
The old professional title 'theatre painter' disappeared definitely during his time. New materials and new lighting techniques were introduced and transformed the stage space, opening new possibilities - and thus also changed the stage designer's methods and means.
Leonce and Lena 1972, A Midsummer Night's Dream 1973, Peer Gynt 1975, Brand 1978, all with Edith Roger as the instructor and Lubos as the stage designer, and Hedda Gabler 1971, More Stately Mansions 1974 and The Lady from the Sea 1977 with Arild Brinchmann as the instructor, were shining performances that lifted the Norwegian art of theatre.
Ibsen won Lubos' heart. In Toralv Maurstad's term as director the small Amphi venue was expanded to a new theatre-in-the-round venue, and opened in 1980 with a production of Ibsen's Love's Comedy. Again in collaboration between Lubos and Edith Roger. Finn Ludt had refigured Ibsen's tragic comedy into a singing play, and the stage design was an apple tree branch in hopeful bloom, spreading all over the venue - in dialectic interaction with the bourgeois' sad circle dance onstage.
Other memorable Ibsen productions are John Gabriel Borkmann, When We Dead Awaken and Rosmersholm. Lubos as a stage designer was competent in transformation. He mastered the great, heavy main stage machinery and created spectacular opera performances, as well as intimate stage spaces in the small format. Classics as well as recently written drama.
The spring of -68 Brinchmann was actively recruiting new staff and adjusting for higher artistic activity, oriented towards trends in modern European theatre.
At the same time Prague had developed into a melting pot for theatre, literature and film, and the city drew artists and intellectuals from all over Europe. This was the day when Milan Kundera taught the artist academy, Václav Havel worked as a stage worker and Heinrich Böll and Günther Grass were observed in street cafés along the river Moldau. This was Lubos' world the spring of 1968. Director and actor Jan Kačer headed Cinoherni klub and created remarkable, at times politically not correct performances at the intimate stage of the theatre, and he had hired the young and gifted Lubos Hruza as a stage designer and costume designer.
As part of the modernisation process Brinchmann invited Kačer to stage an adaption of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment at the main stage the autumn of -68, and Kačer, who accepted, brought his stage designer.
Thus Lubos Hruza found himself in Oslo, as Soviet tanks invaded Prague August 21 1968. Rehearsals had been on for a while when the two Czech artists were informed about the invasion.
That day changed the life of Lubos Hruza, who a month and a half later was employed as a stage designer at The National Theatre. One can also say that the theatre space in Norway was changed in the period that followed, and that hiring Hruza contributed to lifting and developing Norwegian theatre."
Sources:
E-mail from Margareta Hruza, 26.04.2013
Store Norske Leksikon, snl.no, 12.10.2012, http://snl.no/Lubo%C5%A1_Hr%C5%AFza
| Title | Premiere | Role |
|---|---|---|
| The Diary of Anne Frank (Kilden Theatre) | March 3, 2000 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Happy Days (The National Theatre) | Navember 2, 1996 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Slangehud (The National TheatreThe Torshov Theatre) | September 15, 1995 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Kirsebærtreet blomstrer i mai* (The Cherry Tree Blossoms in May) (The National Theatre) | March 18, 1995 | Stage design, Costume design |
| TUPILAK - å lære frykten å kjenne (The National Theatre) | March 5, 1994 | Stage design, Costume design |
| BECKETT! BECKETT! BECKETT! - Waiting for Godot (The National TheatreThe Torshov Theatre) | October 15, 1993 | Stage design |
| BECKETT! BECKETT! BECKETT! - Spill (The National TheatreThe Torshov Theatre) | October 15, 1993 | Stage design |
| BECKETT! BECKETT! BECKETT! - Endgame (The National TheatreThe Torshov Theatre) | October 15, 1993 | Stage design |
| The Price (The National Theatre) | August 28, 1993 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Påklederen (The National Theatre) | January 27, 1993 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Death and the Maiden (The National Theatre) | October 17, 1992 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Bobby Fischer bor i Pasadena (The National Theatre) | December 5, 1991 | Stage design, Costume design |
| The Vikings at Helgeland (The National Theatre) | August 31, 1991 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Kvarvingen (The National Theatre) | April 24, 1991 | Stage design |
| A Doll's House (The National Theatre) | October 27, 1990 | Stage design |
| Erobringen av Sydpolen (The National TheatreThe Torshov Theatre) | October 4, 1990 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Lettice and Lovage (The National Theatre) | March 30, 1990 | Stage design |
| Long Day's Journey into Night (The National Theatre) | October 6, 1989 | Stage design |
| Monki Bisniss (The National Theatre) | September 8, 1989 | Stage design |
| Alle mine sønner (The Norwegian Touring Theatre (Riksteatret)) | September 3, 1989 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Treasure Island (Thalia Teater ASUnderholdningshuset A/S) | February 7, 1989 | Stage design |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (The National Theatre) | October 22, 1988 | Stage design |
| The Hour of the Lynx (The National Theatre) | October 13, 1988 | Stage design |
| The Sound of Music (Underholdningshuset A/SThalia Teater AS) | September 15, 1988 | Stage design |
| Hexeri eller Blind alarm (The National Stage) | May 25, 1988 | Costume design, Stage design |
| Maigret og hans døde mann (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's radio drama division) | April 9, 1988 | Actor (Franz Lehel) |
| The Cherry Orchard (The National Theatre) | March 11, 1988 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Farlige forbindelser (The National Theatre) | January 29, 1988 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Hamsun-maraton (The National Theatre) | Navember 20, 1987 | Stage design |
| Stemmer (The National Theatre) | Navember 19, 1987 | Stage design |
| Ord over tid (The National Theatre) | Navember 14, 1987 | Stage design |
| The Diary of Anne Frank (The Norwegian Touring Theatre (Riksteatret)) | September 3, 1987 | Stage design, Costume design |
| All My Sons (The National Theatre) | August 27, 1987 | Stage design, Costume design |
| The Petition (The National Theatre) | February 20, 1987 | Stage design |
| Tøfler til begjær (Scene West VictoriaThe National Theatre) | January 29, 1987 | Stage design |
| Rosmersholm (The National Theatre) | October 23, 1986 | Stage design |
| The Contract (The Norwegian Theatre) | September 16, 1986 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Waiting for Godot (The National Theatre) | April 29, 1986 | Stage design |
| Death of a Salesman (The National Theatre) | October 5, 1985 | Stage design |
| The Real Thing (The National Theatre) | April 16, 1985 | Stage design |
| Revisoren (Oslo Nye Teater (Oslo New Theatre)) | March 14, 1985 | Costume design, Stage design |
| Cocktailparty (Trøndelag Theatre) | March 6, 1985 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Dark of the Moon (The National Theatre) | January 30, 1985 | Stage design |
| Master Harold (Oslo Nye Teater (Oslo New Theatre)) | February 9, 1984 | Stage design |
| The Little Prince (The National Theatre) | January 4, 1984 | Stage design |
| Morning's at Seven (The National Theatre) | Navember 22, 1983 | Stage design |
| Jeppe of the Hill (Trøndelag Theatre) | Navember 19, 1983 | Costume design, Stage design |
| ANDRE STEDER - Familiestemmer - Victoria station - Et slags Alaska (Trøndelag Theatre) | October 22, 1983 | Costume design, Stage design |
| Good (The National Theatre) | September 2, 1983 | Stage design |
| Agnes - et barn av Gud (Rogaland Theatre) | March 19, 1983 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Bess (The National Theatre) | January 13, 1983 | Stage design |
| Macbeth (The National Theatre) | September 25, 1982 | Stage design |
| Duett for én (The National Theatre) | September 9, 1982 | Stage design |
| Maria kjemper med englene (The National Stage) | May 26, 1982 | Costume design, Stage design |
| Kjenner De melkeveien? (The National Theatre) | March 21, 1982 | Stage design |
| Three Sisters (The National Stage) | February 27, 1982 | Stage design |
| Rain Snakes (The National Theatre) | January 15, 1982 | Stage design |
| Arabella (The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet) | September 12, 1981 | Stage design, Costume design |
| When we dead awaken (The National Theatre) | September 4, 1981 | Stage design |
| Forsvarsadvokaten Clarence Darrow (The National Theatre) | March 3, 1981 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Amadeus (The National Theatre) | December 9, 1980 | Stage design |
| Love's Comedy (The National Theatre) | September 1, 1980 | Stage design |
| Don Carlos (The National Theatre) | March 20, 1980 | Stage design |
| John Gabriel Borkman (The National Stage) | March 8, 1980 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Protest (The National Theatre) | 1980 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Attest (The National Theatre) | 1980 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Children of the Sun (The National Theatre) | October 18, 1979 | Stage design, Costume design |
| An Enemy of the People (The National Theatre) | September 27, 1979 | Consultant |
| Blindgjenger (The National Theatre) | May 30, 1979 | Stage design |
| John Gabriel Borkman (The National Theatre) | February 3, 1979 | Stage design |
| Old World (The Norwegian Touring Theatre (Riksteatret)) | January 28, 1979 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Er det ikke mitt liv, kanskje? (The National Theatre) | December 7, 1978 | Stage design |
| Brand (The National Theatre) | June 10, 1978 | Stage design |
| Jeppe of the Hill (Rogaland Theatre) | May 17, 1978 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Old World (The National Theatre) | 1978 | Stage design |
| The Lady from the Sea (The National Theatre) | December 26, 1977 | Stage design |
| Revisoren (The Norwegian Touring Theatre (Riksteatret)) | September 20, 1977 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Uncle Vanya (The National Theatre) | March 10, 1977 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Winnie-the-Pooh (Trøndelag Theatre) | January 20, 1977 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Tosca (The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet) | September 13, 1976 | Costume design, Stage design |
| Twelfth Night (The National Theatre) | September 2, 1976 | Stage design |
| Catiline (The National Theatre) | February 5, 1976 | Stage design |
| De besatte (The National Theatre) | Navember 11, 1975 | Costume design, Stage design |
| Hary Janos (The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet) | April 7, 1975 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Peer Gynt (The National Theatre) | March 20, 1975 | Costume design, Stage design |
| The Sea (The National Theatre) | February 1, 1975 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Tivoli (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's TV drama division) | October 29, 1974 | Stage design |
| More Stately Mansions (The National Theatre) | September 25, 1974 | Stage design |
| Don Pasquale (The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet) | March 14, 1974 | Stage design, Costume design |
| The Wild Duck (The National Stage) | March 1, 1974 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Bakkantinnene (The National Theatre) | September 29, 1973 | Stage design, Costume design |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream (The National Theatre) | February 24, 1973 | Stage design |
| Kappen (The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet) | February 5, 1973 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Gianni Schicchi (The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet) | February 5, 1973 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Kameratene (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's TV drama division) | October 3, 1972 | Stage design |
| Spöksonaten (The National Theatre) | September 26, 1972 | Stage design |
| Hvem er Ernest? (The National Theatre) | July 7, 1972 | Stage design |
| Leonce and Lena (The National Theatre) | March 22, 1972 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Hedda Gabler (The National Theatre) | December 27, 1971 | Stage design |
| The Cherry Orchard (The National Theatre) | September 22, 1971 | Costume design, Stage design |
| King Lear (The National Theatre) | March 27, 1971 | Stage design, Costume design |
| The Homecoming (The National Theatre) | Navember 28, 1970 | Costume design, Stage design |
| The Snake (The National Theatre) | May 5, 1970 | Stage design |
| The Sandbox (The National Theatre) | January 10, 1970 | Stage design, Costume design |
| The Master Builder (The National Theatre) | September 11, 1969 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Sirkulæret (The National Theatre) | February 25, 1969 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Raskolnikov or Crime and Punishment (The National Theatre) | September 11, 1968 | Costume design, Stage design |