Nová budova SND – nové umelecké rozmýšľanie
A New Building of SNT – New Artistic Thinking

Summary/Abstract: The author, a Slovak theatrical critic and pedagogue, participated in negotiations on constructing a new theatre building for the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava in the second half of 20-th century. Since, on 14-th April 2007 this building was ceremonially completed, it is interesting to read his memories where he is returning to the period of considerations on the need of a new theatre space, is explaining artistic and social motivations which had between 70-ties and 80-ties accelerated the interest to enrich cultural possibilities of the capital city of Slovakia by the first purposefully designed object of the National Theatre (historic building in city centre was built by the end of 19-th century as a Municipal Theatre). The author is emphasizing that in the second half of 20-th century in older, usually adapted theatre spaces, was impossible to use modern technical aquisitions when producing stagings. So the effort to construct an entirely new theatre building was not only the ambition of then social elite to build an expressive architectonic dominant of the new municipal part on the Danube bank, but above all to create better conditions for artistic creation.

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