Petr Mančal

Stage director

After graduation from a secondary school with extended sports curriculum, Petr Mančal pursued his studies at the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague. At that time he formed, together with Prokop Havel, a drama group named Měsíčko Sluncís, where the two staged their own, predominantly Dadaistic theatre sketches. A year later he left the Law Faculty and enrolled for a course in stage direction and dramaturgy at Prague’s Academy of Music and Drama. He completed his studies there in 2002, furthering his education during a year-long study visit at the PWST theatre school in Cracow, with the internationally renowned director Krystian Lupa; and a six-month study visit in London. He has to his credit a number of drama productions at Ostrava’s National Theatre of Moravia-Silesia, and Petr Bezruč Theatre (Václav Havel: A Butterfly on the Aerial; Slawomir Mrożek: The Magical Night; Pedro Calderón de la Barca: Life Is a Dream; Viliam Klimáček: Mária Sabina), at the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec (Roman Sikora: Brushing away Antigona), the Western Bohemia Theatre in Cheb (Josef Topol: A Nightingale for Dinner), and at Prague’s Theatre on the Ballustrade (Ingmar Villquist – Helver’s Night), Theatre Na Prádle (Steven Rathman: The Satan’s Requiem), and the Small Vinohrady Theatre (Petr Mančal: A World Inside Out). He has also appeared as an actor in several stage, radio and film parts. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the Academy of Music and Drama, at the same time holding a job as radio drama director in Czech Radio.