The second part of the study in which is Stefan Olha returning to the activities and the artistic results of existence of the Small Theatre Studio in Kosice, one of the most progressive experimental troupes in 70s of 20th century. A trinity of professional theatrical artists (dramaturge Stefan Olha, director Jozef Prazmari and scenographer Stefan Hudak) in cooperation with the young theatrical artists, predominantly secondary school students, prepared a series of non conform staging projects inspired by stimuli of Russian, Czech and Slovak avant-garde theatre. The aim of creators was to address them particularly to the young generation of spectators, and that is why they had resigned to a classic theatre space and a petrified system of theatrical signs. They were intending to produce a total theatre, reaching out by an acute idea, working with heuristic and provoking formal resources.
In 1976, in Kosice, a new non-professional theatre was originated. In a new House of Culture, three professional creative authors who had been due to various reasons looking for the possibility to put themselves into praxis outside the professional theatres, were given the room for their self-realization. The author of the article -theatrical advisor and dramatist, an extraordinarily eruptive director Jozef Prazmari, and a scenographer Stefan Hudak created a team together with a group of the young enthusiastic secondary school and university students. This team with also some actors from the professional theatres, produced a series of the stagings which have had a rather significant impact on the whole theatrical creation within the Slovak contingency.
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