Čo je divadlo, to predsa nie je naozaj
What is Theatre, it is Surely not for Real

Summary/Abstract: An editorial offi ce continues in publishing profi le interviews with meaningful personalities of the Slovak theatre by a contribution by Matúš Oľha and Štefan Hudák. Štefan Hudák, a scenic designer, native of Veľký Šariš (27th June 1942) belongs to the generation which was entering an active artistic life in sixties of the last century. Even while studying still, he had cooperated as a scenographer with the Slovak National Theatre, but also with a theatre which created an avant- garde alternative to the fi rst drama scene, with Divadlo na Korze (The Theatre on Promenade). In 1968 he became an internal designer of the Czechoslovak Television in Košice. The TV scenic solutions he did, could be counted in hundreds – and he has always been – until now – also a theatre scenographer. When still at school, he had cooperated with a mime Milan Sládek. He designed and carried out the scene for his staging of Kyrmezer´s morality Komedie o Bohatci a Lazarovi (Comedy on Dives and Lazarus) which until now belongs to the classical heritage of the Slovak scenography. Together with outstanding personalities of his generation like Rasťo Bohuš, Jozef Ciller, Tomáš Berka, or Ján Zavarský, he is part of the stream which is usually determined as action scenography – where a scenographer becomes a co-creator of the theatre performance. In the fi rst part of interview Štefan Hudák is zooming the Slovak theatre reality in times of his studying and is recalling the foreign festivals where The Fine Arts Faculty had performed. He is recalling a well disposed and creative atmosphere which had been present in a creation of university stagings, and also teachers and other university workers with whom he had been cooperating then.

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