Thálie Award
Dear radio friends!
The Radio Thalia Award has become a permanent part of the Thalia Theatre Awards – both in its significance and ultimately in the glass vase that is custom-made for the radio laureate. And although it is an original, it looks exactly like the ones given to great theatre artists for their stage performances.
The production of radio dramas has always had a great tradition in the Czech and Slovak lands, and good actors with great voices were always happy to take their talent to the radio microphone. Often the medium of radio allowed them to play roles that they would otherwise not have been cast in. That's why my uncle Jaroslav Kepka was able to record the Fifteen-Year-Old Captain at the ripe age of forty, my mother Gabriela Vránová was able to be the voice of teenage Nastenka from White Nights at almost thirty, and I played little ten-year-old Costar as a nearly grown man.
There have always been top-notch directors, writers, and dramaturgs working at Czech Radio. It was and is a symbol of quality, where the WORD still has meaning and where quality and strong subject matter comes first over superficiality, pandering and commerce.
Ondřej Kepka, actor and director, President of the Actors' Association
