My Hunt!
You won’t have any other stalker but me!
Cast Vít Bednárik, Ľubo Burgr, Milan Chalmovský, Danica Matušová/Anna Čonková, Jana Oľhová, Vlado Zboroň
Voice Milo Kráľ
Music Ľubo Burgr (using songs Tak smutno mi je bez teba – G. Dusík/P. Braxatoris, Prečo nemáš trochu lásky – T. Lengyel/ F.Trefný, Očarená bývam – K. Elbert)
Technical realization of scene Milan Mikula
Technical and visual cooperation Martin Kokavec, Gabriela Zigová
Script, scenic design draft, costumes, directed by Dušan Vicen
The play consists of the three stories of a sick chase: a man pursuing a woman, a woman pursuing a man and an elite sociopathic psychopath in pursuit of an unsuspecting ordinary man. The motifs of the chase are different. However, the common feature of all motivic lines is the absurdity that evokes the situations escalating into more absurdity in moments when you do not know whether to laugh or cry.
STORY:
The play is performed as a reconstruction of three different stories, within which the essence and the development of the pursuit becomes more and more complex. The company SkRAT uses all means necessary to portray this. Detective horror elements blend with hints of absurd cabaret, farce as well as black and white operetta. While in the first story we can rather easily distinguish the stalker from the victim, in the two remaining stories the situation becomes entwined. The society—indifferent to the victim’s call for help at the beginning—gradually becomes the stalker itself, not realizing that it is being coldly manipulated by someone, who pursues his or her own interests; or perhaps the panic around a suddenly designated and observed phenomenon is being taken advantage of by someone in order to square his or her accounts.
STRUCTURE AND MOTIFS:
1st story
A primitive stalker, a mechanical and possessive sense of love, indifferent and cynical community, two women incarnating one character of the same story, while the second woman is only a fictitious idea that couldn’t be fulfilled due to the tragic past.
2nd story
A primitive stalker obsessed with a woman “of his heart”, unpleasant but essentially harmless and comical; all until a cryptic psychopath, who uses psychiatric medication and the tragicomic escapades of the primitive stalker as a warm-up, appears on stage. Perhaps it gives him a perverted pleasure. Perhaps he does so for his personal revenge or some “higher interests”. Or perhaps he tries to investigate whether it is possible to influence a society in such a way that, it starts to approve of and even make absurd judgments against itself.
3rd story
A definitive confirmation of the fact that pursuing—or rather stalking—is not only a problem of a girl wearing a miniskirt or going braless, but that this long underestimated—and precisely because of that even more dangerous—problem can truly catch up to anyone of us… him… her… you… surely you… and even you…
Premiere: September 12th 2014, A4 – priestor súčasnej kultúry
Premiere marked the 10th anniversary of the theatre SkRAT.
The project was supported by Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic and the company Želos.
FESTIVALS AND VENUES
Dotyky a spojenia, Martin, 2015
REVIEW
kød / Stalker or victim? It depends on the viewing angle.
The Inside of the Inside
First Part: Inside of the Inside
Concept, script, direction Ľubo Burgr
Visual cooperation Boris Vitázek
Applied music F. K. Veselý, J. Blaho: Ej chlapci z pod Tatier; W. A. Mozart: A Little Night Music; J. Brabec, P. Rada: Modlitba pro Martu
Applied film materials: Budujeme socializmus 1948, Novotný...; interview with Petr Cibulka, ČT24
Applied literature - passages from the book Zdeněk Mlynář: Mráz přichází z Kremlu; from the defence of Václav Havel; from the blog of Zuzana Roy
Soundmix Ľubo Burgr
Technical cooperation Martin Kokavec
Cast Vít Bednárik, Milan Chalmovský, Dušan Vicen, Vlado Zboroň
Voice of the blogger Ingrid Hrubaničová
Second Part: Paranoia Querulans
About the murders, suicides, various violence, but also about the kidnapping and torture in Czechoslovakia and what is the stance of the authorities The Ministry of Interior and The Public Prosecution on these matters
Concept, script, direction Dušan Vicen
Set design Milan Mikula
Masks Natalia Kida
Visual cooperation Boris Vitázek
Applied music Murcof: Oort, Moon Ate the Dark: Messy Hearts, Explosions In a Four Chambered Heart, Capsules 11
Sound mix Ľubo Burgr, Dušan Vicen, Boris Vitázek
Technical cooperation Martin Kokavec
Characters in the projections František Kovár, Jana Oľhová, Robert Roth
Dancers in the projections Stanislava Vlčeková, Daniel Raček
cast Vít Bednárik, Ľubomír Burgr, Milan Chalmovský, Vlado Zboroň
Inspired by the hitherto unclarified case of the strange death by double agent, priest Coufal in 1981, the authors of the latest production at the SkRAT Theatre are studying the mechanisms which enabled, within the secret police ŠtB, the building up of a parallel power structure and mutual checking of individual members of staff including colleagues at all levels of this organisation. Mechanisms which could be functional even after the dissolution of the ŠtB.
The death of the secretly ordained priest Rev. Ing. Přemysl Coufal is one of the most serious unclarified cases of the Slovak judiciary. It has many levels: it combines a personal tragedy, struggle for human honesty and purgation of one’s name and it is also an example of unprecedented practices by the Czechoslovak ŠtB. It also demonstrates the failure of the judiciary system of the past regime as well as that following 1989. Last but not least, it demonstrates the power the former top members of the secret police have had in Slovakia until today.
The ŠtB interfered into Přemysl Coufal’s life several times. In the 1960’s, having obtained the information about his activities in the underground church, it managed to win him over for its services for several years to provide information about the economic illegal practices of his company. Later he used numerous foreign business trips for establishing contacts and exchange of information and material with the exile and foreign church representatives. In 1979 he was identified as a courier to be forced to collaborate with the ŠtB, which he refused. On 24 February 1981 he was found dead in his flat showing traces of a brutal murder. The case was concluded by the investigation authorities of the day as a suicide. Neither the investigation of 1990, after which the case had been put aside, reached any other conclusion. By the 1992 court decree all the documents related to the case were locked in the archive safe of the SR with the date of release corresponding to the negative prescription (limitation of time beyond which the possible criminal acts related to the case are no longer enforceable). The time limit is still running.
There have been several unsuccessful initiatives to purge the name of Přemysl Coufal, which neither his parents lived to see, especially trying to achieve the annulment of the official investigation conclusion version classifying it as a suicide. In connection with Coufal’s case the disappearance of the journalist Marcel Samuhel is also talked about who had informed about the case in the early 1990’s – at a time when several journalists writing about serious issues disappeared in Slovakia. The personal story of Přemysl Coufal opens many ethical issues – at a time when ethics is considered an empty word and helplessness against non-transparent power mechanisms is cured by cynicism – it is a demonstration of responsibility for the sound functioning of society carried not only by brave individuals but mainly the legislative and judiciary bodies. It also shows how far reaching consequences complicated political decisions can have, such as, for example, “the broad line” after the past which Czechoslovak politicians had done following 1989. On the one hand, it was a gesture of moral noble-mindedness and period-conditioned optimism by the political elite of the day, on the other one, it showed its deadly romanticism and political ignorance the fatal consequences of which we are suffering until today.
In the production The Inside of the Inside the authors, Ľubomír Burgr and Dušan Vicen, are covering several stages of the ŠtB operation. The grotesque analysis of “evaluations” that the members of ŠtB at all levels were writing on themselves offers an opportunity to look into the mechanisms of building up a parallel power structure within the ŠtB thus enabling mutual inspection of individual members of staff and collaborators at all levels of this organisation, mechanisms that might be operational even after the dissolvement of the ŠtB. Another important motif in the production is the story of the ups and downs of prominent party officials, such as Zdeněk Mlynář, author of the thrilling book Frost comes from Kremlin. Thanks to this we can look into the unrestrained inside of power which, unless harnessed by law or morality, can engulf everything around it, including itself, as in the archetypal picture where the devouring starts from the tail. In their production Burgr and Vicen are dealing with stories affected by the ŠtB in recent past but also significant issues which resulted from its activities following the fall of the totalitarian regime. What is of key importance, then, is the investigation of our coming to terms with the heritage of the totalitarian past.
Ján Šimko
Premiere: September 29th 2013, Divadelná Nitra
Length: 45 + 45 min. + 10 min. break
In co-production with the International Theatre Festival Divadelná Nitra, in the framework of the project "Parallel Lives - 20th Century through the Eyes of Secret Police". This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
Supported by Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic and Polish Institute Bratislava.
FESTIVALS AND VENUES
Divadelná Nitra 2013
Víkend atraktívneho divadla 2013, Zvolen
HaDivadlo, Brno, Czech Republic, November 13th, 2013
National Theatre Prague, Czech Republic, October 5th, 2014
Festiwal Parallel Lives, Cracow, Poland, April 18th, 2015
Teatr Ad Spectatores, Wrocław, Poland, April 19th, 2015
REVIEWS
Trial via Trial
(You´re Gonna Get to Jail! You Prick!)
Scene, script, directed by Dušan Vicen
Co-authors and actors Vít Bednárik, Ľubo Burgr, Daniela Gudabová, Inge Hrubaničová, Milan Chalmovský, Jana Oľhová, Heidi Šinková, Vlado Zboroň
Music Rado Chrzan, Ľubo Burgr, Martin Kokavec
Visual cooperation Boris Vitázek
Technical cooperation Martin Kokavec
Characters and events in this inscenation are fictional. However, any similarity to real characters and events will most probably not be accidental.
The staging uses certain citations, as follows:
The text Before the Law comes from Franz Kafka´s novel The Trial. Jozef K. is the main character of this novel.
Smerdyakov is a character from F. M. Dostoyevsky´s novel The Brothers Karamazov.
The tune Adagio in G Minor was used as a theme tune in the film The Trial, directed by Orson Welles.
Quote “We live in a country, where the public authority is not comprehended as a temporary service, but as swag.” As in blog of Radoslav Procházka.
Quote “In a trial with an asshole, only another asshole can be your solicitor.” As in MUDr. Xavier Crement’s book Asshole No More!
The play is loosely inspired by the famous novel by Franz Kafka The Trial (Kafka's original German title: Der Process). This black humorous tessellation of stories and fates, consisting of a few more or less intersecting episodes is however set in the present times, the times of jurisdictional absurdum of the beginning of 21st century, when the process of one absurd social establishment alternates the other…
Premiere: February 25th 2013, A4
Length: 100 min.
The project was supported by Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic and Želos company.
FESTIVALS
Nová dráma / New Drama 2013
Dotyky a spojenia / Touches & Connections 2013, Martin
KioSK 2013, Žilina
A BASTA!, Divadlo Pôtoň – Centrum umenia a kreativity, Bátovce
Divadlo Štúdio tanca, Banská Bystrica, Nov. 7, 2013
Festival Setkání Stretnutie 2014, Městské divadlo Zlín, Czech Republic
REVIEWS
SME / Reffering to Kafka as well as to the present times
.týždeň / Theatre trail with Slovak jurisdiction
kod / Judicatory filth on the peak of moral crisis
Alliteration of the crooked equity
Delusion
(In a Captivity of the Restless Mind)
Script and directed by Ľubo Burgr
Co-authors and actors Vít Bednárik, Daniela Gudabová, Milan Chalmovský, Danica Matušová, Dušan Vicen, Vlado Zboroň
Scene Dušan Vicen
Music Ľubo Burgr, Daniel Matej and others
Visual cooperation Boris Vitázek
Technical cooperation Slavomír Šmálik
Robert M. Pirsig: "When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion." A collage of happysad, pitiably dramatic but also absurdly comic situations that can remind us something or someone. The figures are living in the world of illusion and self-illusion - in the word of delusion.
Premiere: March 9th, 2012, A4 – nultý priestor
Length: 90 min.
Project was supported by Ministry of Culture SR, Endowment Fund Telekom with Foundation Intenda and Šariš company.
FESTIVALS AND VENUES
Stanica Žilina-Záriečie, 2012
Akademický Prešov 2012
REVIEWS
SME / Illusions on sale
Pravda / Delusion – with the SkRAT Theatre conceptions towards fake conceptions
Profit / Contemporary pieta
Buggers and Suckers
Scene, script, directed by Dušan Vicen
Co-authors and actors Vít Bednárik, Ľubo Burgr, Lucia Fričová, Daniela Gudabová, Milan Chalmovský, Romana Maliti
Music Pjoni, Radoslav Chrzan and others
Visual cooperation Boris Vitázek
Technical cooperation Slavomír Šmálik
Actors of the SkRAT theatre shatter the myth of people being divided into hunters and pickers. Images, acts, scenic and textual collages passionately defend a new terminology and a new view on old things, while at the same time they disprove themselves, polemize with themselves, devoure themselves in the search for an answer to the main question of today: Who are buggers? Who are suckers?
Premiere: February 11th, 2011, A4 – Zero Space
Length: 90 min.
The project was supported by Endowment Fund Telekom with Foundation Intenda and Ministry of Culture SR.
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS:
Nová dráma / New Drama 2011, Bratislava – Prize of Student Committee
Dotyky a spojenia 2011, Martin
Divadelná Nitra 2011
Central European Theatre Festival, Košice 2011
Víkend atraktívneho divadla Zvolen 2011
Neue Stücke aus Europa (New Plays from Europe), Wiesbaden 2012, Germany
TRANSLATIONS:
In 2014, the play was translated into Russian and published in Anthology of Slovak Contemporary Dramaturgy in New Literary Observer publishing house, Moscow.
REVIEWS:
SME / How does a new myth originate?
Pravda / Who bugs and who sucks?
kød / Work liberates... from private lives
Týden / How we suck in Zlín
Svět a divadlo / Waiting for a new drama
Divadelní Nitra 2010 catalogue / Dead Souls
Divadelní noviny / From the inside of Nitra 2011 (No. 2)
New Plays blog / Constantly in hurry for nothing
Leftovers
Concept, directed by Ľubo Burgr
Co-authors, actors Vít Bednárik, Ľubo Burgr, Daniela Gudabová, Inge Hrubaničová, Milan Chalmovský, Zuzana Piussi, Dušan Vicen, Vlado Zboroň
Music, noise Jonatán Pastirčák
Play about persistent attempt for statement, search for new understanding, something unexpected, unheard of, but also about who is loved by camera, and how good live relationship works.
Premiere: December 9th, 2009, A4 – nultý priestor
Length: 90 minút
The project was supported by Ministry of Culture of SR and Nycomed company.
FESTIVALS AND PRIZES
Víkend atraktívneho divadla 2010, Zvolen
KIOSK 2010, Žilina
Nominácia na divadelnú udalosť roka 2010
REVIEWS
IS.theatre.sk / Leftovers
kød / SkRAT Fully About the l(L)eftovers from Filling
Dead Souls
(Images from the New World)
Concept, directed by Dušan Vicen
Co-authors, actors Vito Bednárik, Ľubo Burgr, Lucia Fričová, Dana Gudabová, Inge Hrubaničová, Milan Chalmovský, Vlado Zboroň
Light design, music mix Ladislav Mirvald, Šimon Pán
The performance uses fragments from the Oľga Paštéková's video film Petržalka after the midnight a tieňové animácie and shadow animations of Daniela Krajčová.
Smutnosmiešne, konkrétnoabstraktné, brutálnonežné, maximalistickominimalistické, šokujúce aj banálne, živé aj neživé, desivé aj upokojujúce, čiernobiele aj farebné, odvážne aj cenzúrované obrazy, momentky, výjavy a skice z ich, našich aj vašich bytov, chodieb, spální, kúpeľní, kuchýň, pivníc, predsiení a obývačiek. Nakúkanie, zízanie, špehovanie! Všetko, čo ste chceli vedieť o pocitoch voyera a hanbili ste sa k tomu priznať!
Premiere: December 5th, 2008, A4 – nultý priestor
Length: 65 min.
Nonverbal performance
FESTIVALS
Donumenta Regensburg 2009, Germany
Mitteleuropäisches Theaterkarussell 2009, Vienna, Austria
Unidram 2009, Potsdam, Germany
KioSK 2009, Žilina, Slovakia
IETM 2009, Bratislava, Slovakia
Akademický Prešov 2010, Slovakia
Divadelná Nitra 2010, Slovakia
DEMOLUDY 2010, Olsztyn, Poland
East Gate Europe 2010, Aarhus, Denmark
MittelFest Cividale 2011, Italy
REVIEWS
SME / The kingdom obliquely, is a challenge for backbones
kød / A perfect image of desolation
Donumenta 2009 catalogue / Dead Souls
Divadelná Nitra 2010 catalogue / Dead Souls
Birthday
Author Christopher McKey
Text authors and actors Ľubo Burgr, Milan Chalmovský, Inge Hrubaničová, Zuzana Piussi (alternate: Lucia Fričová), Dušan Vicen
Music Ľubo Burgr
Scenic realization team of authors
Directed by team of authors
A birthday party which is better not to be visited. Who can bear so much truth and semi-truth so much lying about oneself about one’s past and future? Music, singing, absurd and realistic theatrical sketches and everything what people who happen to be stuck in the middle love and hate.
Premiere: December 4th, 2007, A4 – Zero Space
Length: 100 min.
FESTIVALS AND PRIZES
Nová dráma / New Drama 2008 – Grand Prix Award for the best Slovak play
Skrat ve skratce 2008, Alfred ve dvoře, Prague, Czech Republic
Víkend atraktívneho divadla 2008, Zvolen
Fléda 2009, Brno, Czech Republic
Festival divadiel strednej Európy 2010, Košice
REVIEWS
SME / Who si suspected of immorality?
IS.theatre.sk / Birthday – a successful play by SkRAT Theatre
The Sad Life of Ivan T.
(A Public Reconstruction of an Emergency Meeting 8/7/2005/)
Authors Ľubo Burgr and collective
Directed by Ľubo Burgr
Co-authors and actors Vito Bednárik, Ľubo Burgr, Petra Fornayová, Lucia Fričová, Daniela Gudabová, Inge Hrubaničová, Milan Chalmovský, Dušan Vicen, Vlado Zboroň
Light and sound design Slavomír Šmálik
Music Phill Glass Music with charging parts, Imre Kálmán Jaj Cica, Ella Fitzgerald; Inge Hrubaničová sings Pieseň by Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský, Vlado Zboroň sings his own folk song Prišiel šuhaj ramenatý.
‘It is a reconstruction of an extraordinary board meeting 8/7/2006’. Stories of people who lived here, who are still living here and who will probably live here. Their life stories intervene with a banal but even more appalling reconstruction of some meeting, which (of course) deals with problems, but never solves anything. Men running away from their homes, women coming back to places of flooded villages. Deer hunting, but also everything which is still alive and able to feel complement a Christmas sequence of two board members. ‘Sadly, the author of this never-ending story is life itself’.
Premiere: November 12th, 2006, A4 – Zero Space
FESTIVALS AND PRIZES
Nová dráma/New Drama 2007, Bratislava – Grand Prix Award for dramaturgy
Víkend atraktívneho divadla 2007, Zvolen
REVIEWS
European Theatre Today 08 – The Plays, European Theatre Convention
Die, Snuff and Kick the Bucket…!!!
(Male Spiritual Striptease is not only for Ladies…)
Author and actors Vito Bednárik, Ľubo Burgr, Dušan Vicen, Vlado Zboroň
Actors in video Márius Kopcsay (male Miro), A. Pajtinková, A. Kríšková, M. Drínová, R. Poláková, Z. Porubjaková, I. Šáteková, K. Hlinčíková, M. Dittrichová, L. Juričínová (females - nymphs)
Editor of video Peter Víťaz
Cinematography Zuzana Piussi, Dušan Vicen
Music Marek Piaček
Music recorded by Požoň sentimentál
Author of songs Ľubo Burgr
Directed by Dušan Vicen
A positive, lethal opus about football teams falling apart. The God doesn’t like helpless ones and masochism is a great thing! The play is also about an admirable ability to fall in love with several different women several times a day also saying that not everybody is able to bear so many inputs and outputs. Further it is about specifications of Slovak tantra, a phenomena of an intelligent mistress, a New man arrival annunciation as well as about other peculiarities. A male strip show not just for ladies…
Premiere: April 15th 2005, A4 – Zero Space
Length: 100 min
Project was supported by Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic.
FESTIVALS AND PRIZES
Víkend atraktívneho divadla 2005, Zvolen
DIV 2005, Trnava
Dny slovenské kultury 2005, Jihlava, Czech Republic
Nová dráma / New Drama 2006, Bratislava – Grand Prix for the best Slovak play production
NoD/Roxy 2006, Prague
Cibulák 2006, Pezinok
Hodokvas 2007, Piešťany
Kremnické gagy 2007
Dny slovenské kultury 2007, Klub Mlejn, Prague, Czech Republic
Skrat ve skratce 2008, Alfred ve dvoře, Prague, Czech Republic
Stanica Žilina-Záriečie, 2008
Oravský divadelný Podzámok 2008
Festival divadiel strednej Európy 2008, Košice
Fléda 2008, Brno Czech Republic
Virtuálne divadlo Trenčín 2011
Dny slovenské kultury 2011, Moravská Třebová, Czech Republic
Dny slovenské kultury 2011, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Tabačka Kulturfabrik, Košice, 2012
POKE fest 2013, Drienovská Nová Ves
Paranoia
Music and directed by Ľubomír Burgr
Co-authors and actors Vít Bednárik (predtým Fedor Blaščák), Ľubo Burgr, Petra Fornayová, Milan Chalmovský, Zuzana Piussi, Vlado Zboroň, Dušan Vicen, Stanislava Vlčeková
Script was made by the method of collective creation.
Woody Allen: Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
Preview: June 16th, 2004, A4 – nultý priestor (as a part of program "Hladný systému neverí")
Premiere: February 18th, 2005, A4 – nultý priestor
Length: 90 min.
FESTIVALS AND TOURS
Nová dráma/New Drama 2005, Bratislava
NoD/Roxy 2006, Prague, Czech Republic
Fléda 2008, Brno, Czech Republic
Víkend atraktívneho divadla 2009, Zvolen
I Don’t Need Much, Good Is Enough
Script, directed by Dušan Vicen
Co-authors and actors Ľubo Burgr, Daniela Gudabová, Lucia Fričová, Vito Bednárik, Stanislava Vlčeková, Vlado Zboroň
Co-author of the sketches “Lust for Life” and “Zorro” is Slávka Daubnerová.
The texts are a result of the recording and transcription of improvised situations.
Music Ľubo Burgr
Technical support Slavo Šmálik
A cynically poetical parable from the life of one hotel room is also a poetically cynical narration about everything what should have happened but from various reasons didn’t. The play is set in the place where people of various faces, sexes and social and other statuses meet for one and only reason – to please themselves.
A series of sketches, which portray people at intimate and delicate situations, in which they easily become vulnerable; they cannot defend themselves and act impulsively…
The play takes place in a soulless, anonymous hotel room, where couples meet to satisfy their sexual needs. In the play, sex is not taken as an end in itself, but as a means of uncovering the truth about the characters, who find themselves in situations they are not prepared for, and in which they accidentally reveal the unpleasant facts about their lives which they normally mask and which they are often unable to admit even to themselves.
The title of this show paraphrases a cryptic statement by Ľubo Burgr, discovered on one of the walls of the A4 - Zero Space…
Premiere: April 19th 2004, A4 – Zero Space
Length: 90 min.
acknowledgements:
Prašná Bašta restaurant for providing a creative environment
Dzedko – for helping with making the set
Barbora Babuta Šedivá – for helping with making the additional sounds
DISK Theatre Trnava – for collaboration
Inspirational sources – for inspiration
FESTIVALS
Cibulák 2007, Pezinok
Víkend atraktívneho divadla 2006, Zvolen
SkRAT ve zkratce, 2008, Alfred ve dvoře, Prague, Czech Republic
Festival divadiel strednej Európy 2009, Košice
Central Europe Loves You
Concept and directed by Dušan Vicen
Co-authors and actors Vito Bednárik, Inge Hrubaničová, Vlado Zboroň, Dušan Vicen
The script was created by recording improvised dialogues on a magnetic tape. The text was created by a group of artists the author of the scene Dinner is Inge Hrubaničová, the authors of the scene Marriage conversation are Vlado Zboroň and Inge Hrubaničová.
Music cooperation Marek Piaček, Boris Lenko, soundtrack by Andrea Bocelli and Indira Radić arranged by Marek Piaček for the brass quintet
Music recorded by Slovak Brass Quintet
Scenic realization Dušan Vicen and collective
“Crazy ride into the darkest depths of the Central-european soul.”
A classically avantard, apolitically-political, folkly-brutal, pseudo-intellectual comedy, which expresses doubts and at the same time confirmations of the existence of something which tends to be addressed as a Central-european cultural context.
Project was supported by Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic.
With the material support of: Copex, theatre company Disk Trnava, Ivana Semjanová, Peter Kozmon and Vlado Zboroň
Acknowledgements: Peter Víťaz, Andrej Slezák
Premiere: 2004, J10, Bratislava
Length: 120 min.
FESTIVALS AND VENUES
Divadelná Nitra 2004
Víkend atraktívneho divadla 2004, Zvolen
Skrat ve skratce 2008, Alfred ve dvoře, Prague, Czech Republic
Fléda 2008, Brno, Czech Republic
Stanica Žilina-Záriečie, 2009
Dny slovenské kultury 2010, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
ANTÉNA na vodě 2013, (A)VOID Floating Gallery & Café / Náplavka, Prague, Czech Republic
HaDivadlo, Brno, November 5, 2013
Stanica Žilina-Záriečie, March 19, 2014
Záhrada – Centrum nezávislej kultúry, Banská Bystrica, May 6, 2014
A Guinea Pig
Co-authors and actors textov Ľubo Burgr, Zuzana Piussi, Petra Fornayová, Milan Chalmovský (previously Mark Lovas)
Music and directed by Ľubo Burgr
Guinea pig is an ideal symbol of something which has to be fed. In return this piece of absurd life will spin endlessly in the wheel, reminding a happy owner his own movement in the vicious circle. Shall we love it, just for the sake of treating it nicely? Or kill it? Who emotionally blackmails whom? The part, which gave the name to the whole theatrical collage, is dominated by an irreproducible, blue sweatpants wearing Burgr’s man without future. There’s no need to let the cat out of the bag to enjoy him when the right time comes in the play.
Premiere: December 10th, 2003, Stoka Theatre
Length: 90 min.
FESTIVALS AND VENUES
Nová dráma/New Drama 2005, Bratislava
Ars poetica 2005, Bratislava
Fléda 2008, Brno, Czech Republic
