Cesty slovenského herectva
Paths of Slovak Dramatic Art

Summary/Abstract: The study is a part of a prepared monography on two great generations of Slovak dramatic actors. Founders of the Slovak professional theatre were drawing experience mainly from Czech colleagues who in 1920 had started in Bratislava and in the Slovak countryside performing under the title the Slovak National Theatre. Borodáč was aiming at professionalisation of the Slovak theatre slowly and systemically. Since 1921, when he saw the staging MCHAT, he starts mentioning Stanislavski as his great model, but the reality in a single professional theatre in Slovakia was completely different.The best Slovak amateur actors were reacting with restrain and denial towards offers placed by the rural Czech theatrical company, and spectacular backround of Slovak stagings was in multinational Bratislava very narrow. That is why not even the most successful pieces did not have a chance to reach a higher number of reruns. He did not have actors at disposal who could have communicated in Slovak without any difficulty. At the break of fifties and sixties, graduates from the Musical and Dramatic Academy (originated as a iniciative of Borodáč in 1925, since 1941 the State Conservatory) and first graduates from the University of Fine Arts (originated in 1949) formed a basis of the second, in full meaning of the word professional generation of Slovak theatrical artists.

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