Art and Culture in Slovakia

ART AND CULTURE

THEATRE – the basic part of culture in any nation in the world. It has always been the moment of eagerness when the performance starts and the curtain goes up. The actors are playing (acting) on the stage (sometimes revolving), and the audience is sitting in a pit, or in stalls, in boxes, in dress circle or upper circle.

In some theatres there is good x bad (poor) acoustics for hearing music or speech. You can get in closer contact with the stage.

Can you name any famous dramatists (playwrights) ? (Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Eugune O ´Neill – Streetcar named Desire, Arthur Miller – After the fall)

In Slovakia most theatres are in Bratislava (Slovak National Theatre – DPOH, Nová scéna, Malá scéna, Astorka – Korzo 90, Stoka, a-ha, Nitra, Trnava, Košice ...

SND building in Hviezdoslav Square- opera and ballet performances can be seen, many Slovak opera singers are famous even abroad - Peter Dvorský, Magdaléna Hajjósiová, Jozef Kundlák

At Nová scéna theatre especially recently a lot of musical have been performed – Blood brothers, Joseph and his technicolor dreamcoat, Some like it hot...

In GB the centre of cultural life is in London naturally, mainly its West End with the best theatres in the world. Apart from W.Shakespeare the greatest playwright in the world of all times (all his plays are about basic human feelings- love, hatred, brotherhood, war, friendship- that is why dramas are understood anywhere in the world and they are for ever) there is another modern hero – author – of the theatre: Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber – author of the best musicals and melodies – Evita, Joseph and ...

Fine music is played in Covent Garden, Royal Opera House, in Royal Albert Hall – for more than 6 000 people at one concert. Pop music concerts are played at Wembley Stadium for about 80 000 fans.

Outside London there are many centres of culture – Shakespeare ´s Globe Theatre (in London his plays are performed especially at Old Vic Theatre),...