A TEARFUL PLAY BY JOZEF PODHRADSKY: HOLUBY AND SULEK. ONLY ONE-TIME PRODUCTION? (Klasika na jedno pouzitie? (Smutnohra Josefa Podhradskeho Holuby a Sulek))

• Authors: Cavojsky Ladislav
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

During his long life, the priest and educator Jozef Podhradsky (1823 - 1915) was also a writer, especially a playwright. He started as a romantic and ended as a messianist and symbolist. He wrote a lot, but his plays were hardly performed on stage at all. Anyway, he was very responsive and actual in his early work. He wrote a Shakespearean drama Holuby a Sulek (1850) as a personal testimony on struggle of Slovak people for civil, national and social rights in the revolution in 1848. It became a historical play even when staged for the first time, although it had been written as a contemporary piece. However, literary experts praised his poetic and documentary value. It took 131 years to premiere this play (1981, Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava). The production was a great social and artistic success, but withdrawn from the repertoire due to the political pressure. It was performed by the students of the Academy of Arts in Banska Bystrica for the second time in 2010. The play was directed and adapted for modern-days Slovak theatre by Matus Olha, who uses dramatized prose and old plays in their original language to create a specific form of contemporary professional and amateur theatre. He shows that it is possible to stage the plays by authors who were forgotten and translates classics into the contemporary language of theatre.

Keywords

EN

DRAMA; PERFORMANCE; PODHRADSKY JOZEF; SLOVAK THEATRE

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Institute of Theatre and Arts, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenské divadlo (Slovak Theatre)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 59
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 37-63
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Cavojsky Ladislav

• Ladislav Cavojsky, Ustav divadelnej a filmovej vedy SAV, Dubravska cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

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11SKAAAA099418