Uhol_92: VYPREDANÉ Slováci ožijú. Triptych

The world, and in it Slovakia too, are going through huge changes; we oscillate between strengthening international ties and regressive and isolationist tendencies. Symbols of national pride are emptied and serve as a universal argument for various ideological movements.

What do we want to be proud of as residents of Slovakia?
What motivates us, what encourages us to positive goals?
What did "our Slovakia" fall asleep and what exactly does it mean when "Slovaks come alive"?

We spoke to three Slovak directors (Dragun, Rázusová, Vollmann) with by assigning them to respond to a fictitious (visionary?) task of finding a new anthem of the Slovak Republic. The goal of three separate, original artistic reactions is to find a tone, discourse, or optics through which we can confront the current challenges we face as a Slovak, Central European, post-socialist, small-town (…) society.

Concept: Alžbeta Vrzgula
Visuals: Braňo Matis
Production: Alexandra Babiaková
Lighting design: Róbert Mačkay

20. and November 21, 2024
19:00 at the Zichy Palace in Bratislava
limited capacity, we will start the pre-sale soon

The main partner Fund for the Support of Art was supported from public sources.

𝟚𝟙. 𝕖𝕖𝕚𝕚𝕟
𝔻𝕃𝕚𝕖𝕚𝕖𝕚𝕖𝕖𝕖𝕖𝕖𝕖𝕖𝕤𝕖𝕖𝕤𝕖𝕖 which he saw in the theater as a child. The persistent effort to present the story chronologically only confuses it more. Every premiere is just a replay of something we have forgotten. You know, someone once told me that time is a flat circle. Everything we have ever done or will do, we will do again and again and again. (True Detective S01E05)

Text, performance, direction: Adam Dragun
Performance: Daniel Fischer
Scenography: Klára Dolník

Adam Dragun is a theater director , performer and lyricist. He is currently studying the Alternative Theater program at Prague's DAMU. His works move on the border between reality and fiction or manipulation and sincerity. He collaborated with theaters in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland. He publishes texts about theater and philosophy and creates and sings in the post-punk band Berlin Manson.

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Ivana Gibová, a representative of Slovak writing, a potential memory of the nation, sang our country according to the example of women in their thirties. . ℤ𝔸ℙ𝔸ÄÄT𝕁𝕁 𝕀 𝕂ℝ𝔸𝕁𝕀ℕ 𝔹𝔼ℤ ĽĐÍ is a merciful therapeutic audiovisual contemplation about the red-blue-white hatred in the country born in 1993. "We are no longer national wakers, because the nation has fallen asleep so hard that it cannot be woken up. We are no longer revivalists, because there is nothing to revive here."

Text / libretto: Ivana Gibová
Director: Júlia Rázusová
Performers: Veronika Husovská, Lenka Libjaková
Music: Martin Rázus Jr.
Costumes: Diana Strauszová

Júlia Rázusová is a theater director who works on the independent stage as well as in established theaters in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Arts of the VŠMU in Bratislava and the Faculty of Arts of the Prešov University and is currently a doctoral student at KALD DAMU in Prague dealing with the dialogue of physical action and text. In the years 2013 - 2020, she worked as the artistic director of the Prešov National Theatre. In 2020, she co-founded the theater group Slzy Janko Borodáč, which, in addition to experimental work, is devoted to the investigation of theater techniques and methods.

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ℕ𝔸𝔻 𝕋𝔸𝕋ℝ𝕆𝕌 𝕁𝔼 𝔻𝔼ℙ𝕂𝔸 is a provocative one man show by Petr Ondrejička, in which he is alone and burnt out like almost everyone in this republic. Peter Ondrejička would like to be up-to-date, but he can't do it, because by the time he learns the text, something new will surely happen here again. So Peter Ondrejička prefers to feel sorry for himself, swear, sing, burn himself and drink - because Peter Ondrejička respects traditional Slovak values. However, Petr Ondrejička's out-of-date stand-up lament may finally lead to a bright future for Slovakia.

Text, direction: Silvia Vollmann
Peter Ondrejička: Peter Ondrejička
Costume: Bet Moth
Music collaboration: Martin Iso Krajčír

Silvia Vollmann is a theater director and mainly works in author's theater. She studied puppetry direction and dramaturgy at the Academy of Arts in Bratislava. She collaborated and performed on renowned established and non-established stages in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Since 2017, she has been the artistic director of the progressive Olomouc scene Divadlo na cucky focused on contemporary dramaturgy, civic involvement and current social issues.