Hľadanie a premeny divadelného priestoru alebo Ako dlho sme na javisku európskej kultúry
The Seeking and the Metamorphoses of the Theatre Space or, For How Long Have We Been on the Stage of European Culture

Summary/Abstract: The theatre in the present-day territory of Slovakia boasts a history of long standing. Theatre cultures have been stacked here in many layers. A cult mask made of the facial skull part dates back to the Halstatt period (700 - 400 B.C.). It was found in the South Slovakian Karst. The finding of a small sculpture of an ancient actor wearing a comic mask at Kelemantia, the one-time Roman military camp (present-day Iza near the town of Komarno), testifies to the familiarity of the early inhabitants of the present-day Slovakia with the ancient theatre. Initially, the medieval religious drama was perfor¬med in churches, only to be moved to town squares later on. The Holy Sepulchre in the church of the Benedictines at Hronsky Sv. Benadik (late 15th century A.D.), Pray Code (12th - 13th centuries), and also a long list of names from a Passion play performed on the town square of Bardejov (1439 -1450) allude to the one-time presence of the ancient theatre in our territory. In the 16th century, the theatre was largely housed in schools and burgher houses. The outcome of the seeking and metamorphoses of a theatre space and its moving from the caves, woods, churches to town squares was the setting up of permanent stages in palaces and, ultimately, the building of stand-alone theatre buil¬dings.

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