The Aréna Theatre
In commemoration of the 70thanniversary of Slovak National Uprising, Aréna Theatre invited prominent playwrights to create one-act plays on this event. Works by Pavel Kohout, Ľubomír Feldek, Michal Hvorecký, Eva Maliti-Fraňová, Sláva Daubnerová, Martin Čičvák and Peter Lomnický have been selected for stage adaptation, while Sláva Daubnerováwas in charge of the directorial concept, uniting the works into a single homogeneous piece.
The Slovak National Uprising (Slovak: Slovenské národné povstanie, abbreviated SNP) or 1944 Uprising was an armed insurrection organized by the Slovak resistance movement during World War II. In the post-war period, many political entities, mainly the Communists, attempted to "hijack" the uprising to their credit. The Stalinist regime in Czechoslovakia presented the Uprising as an event initiated and governed by Communist forces. Slovak ultranationalists, on the other hand, claim that the uprising was a plot against the Slovak nation, as one of its main objectives was to oust the regime of the puppet Slovak state and reestablish Czechoslovakia, in which Slovaks were dominated by Czechs. In fact, many factions fought in the uprising, the largest of which were units of the Slovak Army, Democratic resistance and Communist partisans, and international forces. Given this factionalization, the Uprising did not have unambiguous popular support. Yet the participants and supporters of the Uprising represented every religion, class, age, and anti-Nazi political faction of the Slovak nation.
Director: Sláva Daubnerová
Dramaturgy: Zuzana Šajgalíková
Choreography: Stanislava Vlčeková
Set: Juraj Kuchárek
Costumes: Martin Kotúček
Music and sound design: Matej Gyarfáš
Video research: Sláva Daubnerová
Video mapping: Alex Zelina
Video postproduction: Lukáš Kodoň
Cast: Sláva Daubnerová, Mariana Mackurová, Mária Šamajová, Peter Brajerčík, Martin Hronský, Marián Prevendarčík, VladimírSadílek, Tomáš Vravník, Vladimír Zboroň a Jakub Ďurkáč
Premiere: August 28 2014, Aréna Theatre Bratislava
foto: Šymon Kliman
