Ivan Stodola – dramatik. Prológ – žartovanie
Dramatist Ivan Stodola – Prologue – Joking

Summary/Abstract: The paper elucidates the early works of one of the most prominent personalities of Slovak 20th century drama, medical doctor and writer Ivan Stodola. His minute dramatic pieces, written for a student theatre in Liptovský Mikuláš, Stodola’s hometown, were put on paper in the early 20th century. His early dialogues were affected by Budapest cabarets (he made his debut in 1911, with a sketch Who Will be Wearing the Pants in the Family?). Although the text is short, it shows the young and beginning playwright’s gift for putting two distinct conflict-bearing characters against each other, his sense of drama and of the stage, as well as his sense of gradation and punch- lining.Among the best-known Stodola’s minute dramatic pieces are Elections and Tax Settlement, written in 1920 and staged on a N ew Year’s Eve party in 1920, or, 1923, by members of the local culture society Beseda. Ján Sládeček, editor of an omnibus volume of dramatic works by Ivan Stodola, shares his profound knowledge of all the minute dramatic pieces of Ivan Stodola and their stagings.

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