Repertoire Drama
A Winter Funeral
Drama
The new SND building, Studio
Magical comedy about unconventional wedding preparations
Am Fluss/Pri rieke [On the River]
Drama
The new SND building, Studio
Coproduction with Schauspielhaus Wien
Blood Wedding
Drama
The new SND building, Drama hall
The renowned Spanish author Federico García Lorca created what are now gems of classical drama. Already in the 1930s, he opened up the themes of emancipation, freedom, identity and women's role in society through prominent female heroines. In 1933, he wrote a thrilling drama, a beautiful poetic epic of passion, love and tradition, Blood Wedding. On the wedding day, Leonardo kidnaps the bride, his former love. Or rather, is she running away from her own groom? Are repressed feelings stronger than the fear of what is to come? Set in hot Andalusia, the story is an archetypal tale of mothers losing their sons, of fathers and daughters, of love that is stronger, and of honour that is beyond all rational reasoning. We observe the maturation of the heroes as they face death with great intensity. The dreamy drama is also about the desire to forgive, but it may not be as strong as the desire for revenge.
Running time is indicative, as the dress rehearsal is still due for the production.
Première November 9, 2024
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Boule de Suif [Dumpling]
Drama
The new SND building, Drama hall
A combination of several dramatisations of short stories by the famous French writer. A village in the French countryside. Life seems to be resuming its old ways after the war. Although enemy soldiers are everywhere, people are trying to live their normal, mundane lives with their worries and joys. After the dark days of living and dying, the village prepares for the celebration of the First Holy Communion. Guests from the city arrive, extended families gather, and the village is ready for a great folk festival. However, this is interrupted by a ban; the commander of the occupation squad forbids the out-of-towners to leave the village. A power that has hitherto lurked in the background as a vague threat suddenly becomes fully revealed. In a borderline situation, people's characters come out, and the festive day turns into a bitter grotesque. Maupassant was a ruthless observer of his own contemporaries. His texts are bursting with irony, surprising points and grotesqueness, but at the same time with a very deep knowledge of human nature and life.
Running time is indicative, as the dress rehearsal is still due for the production.
Première June 7, 2025
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Chaos
Drama
The new SND building, Studio
Contemporary comedy about three women who are losing grip of their lives, until they end up in utter chaos.
Children
Drama
The new SND building, Studio
Loosely based on short stories by Božena Slančíková-Timrava
A story about children, whom we can completely suffocate with too much love, but also about strangers, to whom we can be cruel and indifferent
Declaration of Independence
Drama
The new SND building, The Blue Salon
Authorial play inspired by the life of Edward Bernays and his wife Doris Fleischman.
Dirt
Drama
The new SND building, Studio
A powerful intimate story about parents and two adopted girls
Embers
Drama
The new SND building, Studio
Based on the novel Candles Are Burning Out by Sándor Márai.
A riveting reconstruction of betrayal, friendship, chase and passion.
Escaped Alone
Drama
The new SND building, Studio
Four ladies chat over a cup of tea about everything and nothing. Funny, cruel, factual and touching
Fear-Not
Drama
The new SND building, Drama hall
A fairy-tale about how Maruška and Fear-Not encountered more than just Twelve Months.
Gertrude Stein (working title)
Drama
The new SND building, The Blue Salon
Gertrude Stein is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable yet controversial female figures of the 20th century Despite the fact that she was a supporter, promoter and patron of men such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Ernest Hemingway, Henri Matisse, Francis Scott Fitzgerald and others, not only in our context, her personality and legacy have remained more or less forgotten. Is it that we have long overlooked women and those in the arts in particular? Or the fact that she was in a lesbian relationship with her life partner, Alice B. Toklas? Neither is likely to be the reason. Rather, it may have been the fact that, as a Jew living in Nazi-occupied France, she was only able to maintain her lifestyle as an art collector and provide for her physical safety thanks to the protection of Bernard Faÿ, an influential official in the Vichy government and Nazi collaborator. One way or another, we will never know the true answer to this question. Our production does not aim to assess or make judgments but rather to explore the micro-details and motivations in the life of an American Jewish woman with German roots and a bilingual upbringing who has made a roundabout return to the old continent. What did the avant-garde poet, playwright, librettist, translator and author of novels inspired by Cubism, one of the most distinctive literary experimenters and a woman who helped many men become great, long for? Perhaps, after all, we have more in common with her than we think. Then again, she was also a human being. Flesh and bone. The original play written by Tereza Trusinova, from whom the SND Drama Theatre commissioned the text for the second time, will be directed by Jana Wernerová, an established director, a member of the middle generation, who has so far worked mainly at the Na Peróne Theatre.
Running time is indicative, as the dress rehearsal is still due for the production.
Première March 29, 2025
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Ghosts Are Only Human
Drama
The new SND building, Studio
A bittersweet collective meditation on ageing and its cruelty, dying, waiting for what will never come, on true helplessness, fear and anger, in short, on everything we turn a blind eye to. Like most of us, do you feel it doesn't apply to you? All the more reason to be alert so that you are not surprised by the signs of advanced age later on. And perhaps also so that we can have greater compassion for each other. Any one of us may one day find ourselves in the position of a bedridden person. What is hidden behind the absent gaze, behind the silent faces? The Swiss author Katja Brunner, who writes in German, has embarked on a pilgrimage in which she wants to explore all aspects of old age, which people often experience literally left behind in retirement homes. In Ghosts Are Only Human, a prominent representative of the youngest generation of female authors from German-speaking countries offers her view of people who once bubbled with energy and had rich private, civic and comfortable lives. All that is left, however, are bodies pretending to be what they once were, plus scraps of experience and bruises showing the "kind" attitude of the nursing staff. Isn't the name retirement home a synonym for death home? Can a person in advanced age feel like a forgotten glove while another feels an overwhelming sexual desire? We learn this in monologues, which, as the author herself puts it, have no future, which makes them more free than others. Katja Brunner's writing was based on her experience volunteering in such a facility. Her text is a response to the bureaucratisation of ageing and the dehumanisation of human beings.
Running time is indicative, as the dress rehearsal is still due for the production.
Première June 14, 2025
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Illusionen
Drama
The new SND building, Studio
Bitter-sweet small-scale drama about the intimate universe of married couples
Jesus of Montreal
Drama
The new SND building, Drama hall
A story about the search for the meaning and place of spirituality in the modern urbanised world, but also a satirical look at the world of ar
Just Another Cup of Tea
Drama
The new SND building, The Blue Salon
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Just Wait for It! We’re Coming for You!
Drama
The new SND building, The Blue Salon
A creative reflection on a tragedy that has remained suppressed and untold for nearly a hundred years. A tragedy caused by prejudice that is present to this day.
Kocúrkovo (Gotham City)
Drama
The new SND building, Drama hall
A comedy universe in a new format, with the bride waiting in vain for the groom and the author hitting the confines of the time.
Macbeth
Drama
The new SND building, Drama hall
One of the most famous tragedies about the tempting but sinister temptation to gain absolute power making one lose everything
Milada
Drama
The new SND building, The Blue Salon
Authorial docudrama that explores the profound story of a woman, mother, lawyer, politician, member of the Czech anti-Nazi résistance, and a victim of Stalinist show trial, Milada Horáková.
Morena, author’s production
Drama
The new SND building, The Blue Salon
Author’s production – a small probe into th einner world of a woman turning thirty
OPERATION B - talking about silence
Drama
The new SND building, The Blue Salon
This original Slovak play was based on Marianna Oravcova's publication - Operation B, published by the Nation's Memory Institute
Original project
Drama
The new SND building, Drama hall
The original project of the director Gianina Carbunaria is another of the SND Drama Theatre's collaborations with prominent creators from abroad. The Romanian playwright and director has worked on many European theatre stages. She is preparing an exclusive original play that touches upon two realities for the Drama Theatre of the Slovak National Theatre. Two countries with a post-communist past are moving towards the present. At the same time, in the effort to understand new narratives and the problems of divided societies, there is a desire for a dialogue, whatever we imagine it to be. The original play will be based on research, interviews and a close examination of the experiences of individual performers. Her working method creates a new, autonomous perspective on what we actually live or rather would like to live. Reality and theatre fiction, distance and detachment provide the means to re-evaluate what we honestly know about ourselves.
Running time is indicative, as the dress rehearsal is still due for the production.
Première April 5, 2025
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Reconciliation or Adventure at Harvest Time
Drama
The new SND building, Drama hall
Comedy about reconciliation, adventure, love games and coincidences in a Slovak cult classic.
Request Concert
Drama
The new SND building, Studio
The play is without words but says more than the one with lots of talking
Rhinoceros
Drama
The new SND building, Studio
Eugène Ionesco is one of the most important representatives of the theatre of the absurd and one of the classics of 20th-century literature. Originally a Romanian author, but working and writing in France, he felt that language was no longer a sufficient tool for communication and understanding and that the tragedy was the transformation of the human being. He also addressed this in his absurdist grotesque Rhinoceros. In an unidentifiable town, normal or decent people gradually start turning into rhinos. They roam the city streets in large numbers, singing loudly and occasionally vandalising the surroundings. The play also opens a discussion about who is willing to undergo the transformation and find their place in the safety of the herd and who would rather still remain human. Can a little burst of love, meaning of life or work stop such a transformation? Or is the path to the desertion of humanity already inevitable? The metaphorical image of a totalitarian society becomes once again a warning of the ease with which a society can abandon its values and principles. The key play of the Theatre of the Absurd was first staged in 1959.
Running time is indicative, as the dress rehearsal is still due for the production.
Première April 12, 2025
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Scenes from the Life of Director (Ingmar Bergman)
Drama
The new SND building, Studio
A production about the cathartic power of theatre.
Sin / Her Stepdaughter
Drama
The new SND building, Studio
Two gems of Slovak and Czech realistic drama
Tatarka
Drama
The new SND building, Studio
The theatre project Tatarka, based on a section of Dominik Tatarka's literary work (Wicker Armchairs, Demon of Consent, Alone Against the Night), creates an image of several epochs/moments of the last century Europe from the author's perspective and inner emotional experience and communicates the confession of an individual in a time of mass and demagogic thinking. In this project, Tatarka's recurring literary protagonist, Bartolomej Slzička, appears in Paris in 1938, just after the Munich Agreement, as a student, then as a national writer in the Czechoslovak Palace of Culture in 1956, and then as a persecuted dissident during the years of Normalisation (1978), and finally as an old man waiting for something that he sadly won't live to see, in May 1989. The Tatarka project captures a part of the author's literary cosmos in its infinitely associative, allegorical and even dreamlike mood. Although much of the work cannot be separated from the period it references, in its more general ideas and aspirations, it becomes timeless and piercing even for contemporaries. But is the current society ready for Tatarka? And is this the freedom he imagined and longed for? Or have brand new demons emerged that would make Tataka rebel again?
Running time is indicative, as the dress rehearsal is still due for the production.
Première November 2, 2024
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The Ball
Drama
The new SND building, Drama hall
Dramatisation of prose by a brilliant observer of harsh human fate
The Clean House
Drama
The new SND building, Studio
An almost serious comedy about undercover housekeeping, innocent infidelity and the perfect joke
The Conformist
Drama
The new SND building, Drama hall
A story about the desire to discover one's place in society, even at a blood price
The Crucible
Drama
The new SND building, Drama hall
A thrilling play about eternal moral dilemmas inspired by the Salem witch hunt
The Dog on the Road
Drama
The new SND building, Drama hall
This is brilliant literature about literature and a culture that is infused with irony, insight, sensitivity and comprehension.
The Hotel Bristol Apartment
Drama
The new SND building, Drama hall
A black comedy based on Roald Dahl's Skin
The Imaginary Invalid
Drama
The new SND building, Studio
The Imaginary Invalid is an absurdist comedy about addiction to questionable medical practices. The idea of a miraculous cure-all that will solve all possible and impossible(!) problems has tempted mankind since time immemorial. Philosophers, physicians, charlatans, but especially patients, have gravitated to this idea. One does not have to be really sick to be obsessed with the need to heal. The fear of the disease can be more destructive than the disease itself. And one will do anything to feel relieved. Solution? An enema. The author, notorious for his derogatory attitude to the medicine of his time, chose it as a symbol of doctors, pharmacists and medicine as such. Since the play's origin, medical science has moved on, and people no longer have to undergo dubious practices with uncertain, if not outright destructive, effects. So why do they keep doing it? In the flood of conflicting information about optimal eating habits, the real causes of disease, and various treatments, a 21st-century man stumbles between a naive devotion to charlatans and an uncritical scepticism of medicine. This, after all, was also Molière's attitude, which, although it may seem a little short-sighted in the light of historical hindsight, is not irrelevant even today. In his last play, Molière does not spare doctors, their practices or medical science itself. It is a cruel twist of fate that it was during the performance of this play that he had a coughing fit, which was fatal to him a few hours later.
Running time is indicative, as the dress rehearsal is still due for the production.
Première January 25, 2025
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
Drama
The new SND building, Drama hall
Classical Shakespearean comedy about the philandering knight Falstaff
The New Century
Drama
The new SND building, Studio
An appealing shock therapy that will open your eyes, melt your heart and raise your mouth corners
The Owl
Drama
The new SND building, The Blue Salon
A production about different opinions, dated views, as well as mutual understanding between two generations.
The Play that Goes Wrong
Drama
The new SND building, Studio
Contemporary British comedy presents an ironic view of the world of theatre and, at the same time, pays tribute to this world
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Drama
The new SND building, Drama hall
An adaptation of Robert Crichton's comic novel offers a lively tale of not taking things seriously until it's about life and death. Or wine? It is 1943, and Santa Vittoria, a picturesque mountain town in Italy, is waking up to a new era after twenty years of Mussolini's dictatorship. The locals have survived the war on the home front and have no idea of the change that lies ahead. Experience whispers to them that perhaps, as always – none. But every reason to celebrate counts. Great idols and false hopes were discarded long ago, and they concentrated on what is nearest and dearest to them – wine. With its harsh honesty, spiced with sarcasm and sharp acronyms, Crichton's draft is reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut's books or Heller's Catch-22. At first glance, this light comedic gloss on the indomitable Italian character is a timely metaphor for the various forms of defiance. The surprising plot develops into more and more absurd and serious tones. So, the well-kept secret of true heroism is finally revealed—let us not assign the role of heroes to others. Let us not just wait for white crows or valiant falcons who will sacrifice themselves for us and put their own lives on the line. The key is to pick up the part of your body that is touching the chair and try to do something. Both possible and impossible.
Running time is indicative, as the dress rehearsal is still due for the production.
Première February 1, 2025
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The Story on How Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich Have Fallen Out With Each Other
Drama
The new SND building, The Blue Salon
A story that took place between two neighbours in the small town of Mirhorod, but could also take place in your neighbourhood
Till the Stones Come...
Drama
The new SND building, Drama hall
Sex, drugs and rockenroll... And MONEY
Under Western Eyes
Drama
The new SND building, Studio
The story of a man who tried to sail harmlessly through an authoritarian regime, to have nothing to do with it, but chance prevented him from doing so
Vassa Zheleznova
Drama
The new SND building, Studio
A play about wealth that becomes fatal. About the life we want to protect and save. At what price?
