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REFLEXIA DIVADLA MARGINALIZOVANÝCH SKUPÍN OBYVATEĽSTVA V SLOVENSKEJ DIVADELNEJ KRITIKE A TEATROLÓGII NA PRÍKLADE DIVADLA BEZ DOMOVA

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Lindovská N.

Slovenské divadlo (Slovak Theatre)

2013

vol. 61

issue 3

309 - 318

Using the example of Theatre Without Home which includes the homeless and the disabled, the author examines the approach of the Slovak theatre critics and theatre scholars to the theatre of marginalized groups. This type of theatre emerged in Slovakia in the 1990s. The phenomenon of homeless theatre appeared in the Slovak context at the beginning of the 21st century. Theatre Without Home was officially established in 2006 and is currently trying to become professional. It views itself as a community theatre that has high artistic ambitions connected with therapy and social integration. Lindovská analyses in detail the approach of theatre critics to assessing and interpreting the productions of Theatre Without Home. Given the little interest that critics have demonstrated in its theatrical production, the author states that the marginal position of marginalized groups in society reflected in the marginal position of their cultural and artistic activities. At the same time she points out that the production of the theatre of marginalized groups violates deep-rooted aesthetic and ideological norms, has an experimental character and impact on the development of theatrical thinking.

HOMELESS PEOPLE IN BRATISLAVA (EMPIRIC PROBE)

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Benova N.

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)

2004

vol. 52

issue 1

32-53

Concept of homelessness is closely intertwined with concept of poverty. People, who miss home, miss the place and institution where numerous needs are easily satisfied. Homeless people could satisfy very ordinary needs like health diet, clothing, bodily cleanness and tidiness but with exceptional effort. Therefore, concepts of poverty and homelessness are inclusive, not synonymous. To be poor does not necessarily mean to be without home. However, to be homeless implies being poor. The paper is based on the intensive fieldwork in Bratislava streets and homeless asylums done by the authoress in the years 1999 - 2003. The fieldwork consists of repeated visits of places where homeless people use to stay (squatted houses, deserted garden cabanas, sewerages, cellars) and of observations of their way of living. Later, in the years 2002- 2003 she continued her research as the part of her voluntary work for the four Christian and civic organizations caring for homeless people in Bratislava. The basic findings of the research could be sum as following. Accurate numbers of homeless people in Bratislava are unknown; estimations come near to several thousands. There is no organization authorized to keep the figures of homeless people. Homeless people in Bratislava are ill-assorted people who resist general categorization. Their diversity could be partly described with category of age, gender and place of stay. Some characteristics are typical only for parts of homeless people, for instance types of shelters and surviving strategies could be use as grouping criteria. However, such categories are mutually penetrating and one homeless person could belong to more categories. Homeless people in Bratislava could be sorted out according types of shelter to three groups: living on street, living in own shelters like desolate houses, self-made shanties, sewerages; and people living in lodging houses and hostels provided by voluntary and charitable organizations. This categorization is not fix, because homeless people usually use one type of shelter only for restricted period. The findings of the survey among the sellers of street journal Nota Bene done in February 2002 suggested that 29% lived in hostels, 12,9% in lodgings, 6,5% by acquaintance, 16,1% in desolate house, 25,8% directly in the street and 9,7% on other place. Street people have various surviving strategies. Majority of them combine their own efforts with using the institutional help to ensure their living. They take temporary jobs, odd work, jobbing, their sell homeless journal street entertaining, begging, scavenging, and thieving. Using the institutional help is not positively the indicator of someone passivity. Many problems cannot by solved individually and without organizational provision - like taking shower, providing for one documents, or medical aid.

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REFLEXIA DIVADLA MARGINALIZOVANÝCH SKUPÍN OBYVATEĽSTVA V SLOVENSKEJ DIVADELNEJ KRITIKE A TEATROLÓGII NA PRÍKLADE DIVADLA BEZ DOMOVA

HOMELESS PEOPLE IN BRATISLAVA (EMPIRIC PROBE)