Gábor Zsámbéki
Gábor Zsámbéki is a Hungarian theatre director, born in 1943.
From 1974 to 1978 he led the Csiky Gergely theatre in the village of Kaposvár, making it one of the most important theatres in Hungary. He was the main instructor of the national theatre in Budapest from 1978 to 1982. At the time he founded the Katona theatre, which he has led since. From 1979 he has also been teaching direction and acting at the national theatre academy in Budapest. He has been leading The Union of European Theatres for several terms.
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(Objekt ID 8827)| Object type | Person |
| Born | December 30, 1943 |
| Functions | Director, Theatre director |
Gábor Zsámbéki has worked in Norway several times. For Rogaland Theatre he has staged Molière's The Miser in 1998, Büchner's Woyzeck in 1999 and Ibsen's Hedda Gabler in 2003. At The National Theatre he has staged Molière's Tartuffe (2001), Little Eyolf (2002) and Histrionics by Thomas Bernhard in 2004.
Even Stormoen won The Hedda Award 1998 in the particularly excellent performance category for his interpretation of Harpagon in Zsámbéki's production of The Miser, and Zsámbéki was nominated in the best direction category.
Gábor Zsámbéki also directed Woyzeck for Rogaland Theatre in 1999. The production was nominated for The Hedda Award 2000 in the best production category.
Gábor Zsámbéki won The Hedda Award 2004 in the best direction category for Histrionics at The National Theatre.
The Hedda Jury gave the following reason:
"This year's winner is a director with long experience, a theatre person who with equal curiosity and enthusiasm has blown new life into the classics and presented new, contemporary playwrights. The winner has stated that the most important element of the theatre is the actor, and in the production honoured today the direction emphasises to put the actor in the centre of it.
The main character, yes, of course, but also the supporting cast - they all seem to be as important for the director, and thus they play a determining role for the spectator's experience of the many layers in the witty, baroque and demanding text.
The winner of the year is Hungarian Gábor Zsámbéki for his tight, but imagination-triggering version of Thomas Bernhard's Histrionics at The National Theatre."
Source:
Sceneweb on The Hedda Award 2004, www.sceneweb.no, 24.10.2012, http://www.sceneweb.no/en/awarding/23869/Heddaprisen_2004-2004
Sceneweb on The Hedda Award 2000, www.sceneweb.no, 12.11.2012, http://www.sceneweb.no/en/awarding/23919/Heddaprisen_2000-2000
| Title | Premiere | Role |
|---|---|---|
| The Threepenny Opera (Trøndelag Theatre) | September 15, 2011 | Direction |
| Erasmus Montanus (The National Theatre) | August 30, 2007 | Direction |
| The Dance of Death (The National Theatre) | February 25, 2006 | Direction |
| Histrionics (The National Theatre) | March 13, 2004 | Direction |
| Hedda Gabler (Rogaland Theatre) | September 6, 2003 | Direction |
| Little Eyolf (The National Theatre) | August 30, 2002 | Direction |
| Tartuffe (The National Theatre) | April 28, 2001 | Direction |
| Woyzeck (Rogaland Theatre) | September 11, 1999 | Direction, Adapted by |
| The Miser (Rogaland Theatre) | March 21, 1998 | Direction |