SLOVAK NATIONAL THEATRE, Bratislava

ABOUT

The production is based on the literary work of Slovak writer and journalist Dominik Tatarka. His recurring literary protagonist, Bartolomej Slzička, first appears as a student in Paris in 1938, just after the Munich Agreement, then as a celebrated writer in the Czechoslovak Palace of Culture in 1956, and then as a persecuted dissident during the era of normalisation in the 1970s. The production uses allegorical and dreamlike elements in a humorous and original way. However, it also asks whether the freedom we enjoy today is the same as that imagined and longed for by Tatarka.

SLOVENSKÉ NÁRODNÍ DIVADLO, Bratislava

Dominik Tatarka, Dávid Paška

Direction Dávid Paška