The Theatre Critics’ Awards are bestowed on the basis of simple sums of votes submitted in the Svět a divadlo (World and Theatre) magazine’s survey (66 critics participated this year). The Best Production of the Year was Euripides’s Bacchae, directed by Jan Frič at the National Theatre Prague and the production also scored in the Best Music category, the award going to Jakub Kudláč. The Best Actress of 2023 in the critics’ view was Anežka Kubátová for her leading role as the writer Daňa Horáková in the production About Pavel, directed at the Divadlo Na Zábradlí (Theatre on the Balustrade) by Anna Klimešová. There is a sad undertone to the Best Actor category as its laureate Norbert Lichý, awarded for his leading role in Zeller’s Father (directed by Jan Holec, Petr Bezruč Theatre Ostrava), unexpectedly passed away in January. The Theatre of 2023 is Prague theatre X10, praised particularly for its contemporary dramaturgy. The award for the Best Set Design of the Year went again to last year’s winners, the duo Tereza Gsöllhoferová and Eva Justichová, this time for their design of the immersive production Climax, directed for the Pomezí Association by Lukáš Brychta. The Talent of the Year, according to critics’ votes, is the director and playwright Tomáš Ráliš. In the out-of-competition category “the greatest experience from a foreign theatre” scored the production Spartacus: Love in the Time of Plague, directed by Jakub Skrzywanek at Teatr Wspołczresny in Szczecin.