SkRAT Theatre: Punctum contra punctum

Cast: Ľubo Burgr, Milan Chalmovský, Jozef Belica, Natália Okolicsányiová, Zdena Kvaskova, Barbora Repková; co-author of the text Bergman and Fragments of the Soul: Lucia Fričová; director: Rasto Ballek; music: Jozef Sixta, Zdena Kvaskova, Ľubo Burgr

“A production composed on the principle of counterpoint, where point is juxtaposed against point, note against note. It is in the moments of maximum musicality, in the multivoiced juxtaposition of scenes, where the points not only complement each other, but even collide, that it turns into total theatre for me. Many scenes that one experiences in reality are such total music. All we know is that someone is trying to tell someone something. There is a tension of paradox: I want to follow these simultaneous scenes, to understand them, but I can’t. And in fact – I ask myself, along with the creators – why do we need language as a means of communication if we can’t agree on basic things anyway, whether personal, social or global? The contrapuntal theatrical experiment makes higher demands on the viewer, but at the same time it appeals and entertains. And liberates,” writes theatre critic Juraj Šebesta.

The performance contains vulgarisms.

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This project is financially supported by the Bratislava City Foundation and the Bratislava Old Town Municipality. The event was supported from public funds by the Slovak Arts Council and the Bratislava City Foundation.