Reviews & Feature

After translating thirty-two sonnets by the Slovak poet Pavol Országh-Hviezdoslav into free verse, I finally wrote one of my own. It isa seven syllable sonnet. After the poem, I'll tell you about the performance that inspired it.

2025: Tatra Banka Foundation Art Award 2024: Young Creator Award for directing of the production The Odyssey – Roland Schimmelpfennig[6]

Hviezdoslav's message from 1914 remains just as relevant in 2025.

On 17 and 18 January 2025, the Pavel Orszag Hviezdoslav Theatre in Bratislava premiered a play consisting mainly of Hviezdoslav's Bloody Sonnets in English translation. Audiences and translator John Minahane will find it fascinating that the iconic Slovak poet wrote a powerful anti-war statement shortly after the start of the First World War. In...

"Nation fell upon nation," resounds from the stage the verse of Hviezdoslav's most famous work.

The SC AICT is a member of the International Association of Theatre Critics AICT/IATC.

Read more: link

In the year of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, but also of the death of Dominik Tatarka, the Drama Department of the Slovak National Theatre staged a production with the short but apt titleTatarka. The artistic and philosophical legacy of the novelist Dominik Tatarka is one of those that suffered from the socio-political...