Valasek named winner of Linbury Prize 2009
Ales Valasek has been named as the overall winner of the Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2009, for his proposed staging of Going Dark - a one-man show for production company Sound & Fury.
Four young designers, including Valasek, will now be given the chance to turn their designs into actual productions. The other three winners were Samal Blak, who will design Verdi’s Othello for Birmingham Opera Company, Jean Chan who will produce the staging for The Garbage King for the Unicorn Theatre, while Ruth Sutcliffe will create the set for The Duchess of Malfi at the Royal and Derngate, Northampton.
Each winner will receive £2,000 prize money with an extra £1,000 to Valasek as the overall winner. An exhibition of the work of the four winners, as well as the other eight finalists is on show at the National Theatre until November 29.
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