HISTORY
OF STOKA THEATRE COMPANY
The
STOKA theatre company was founded in January 1991 as a
result of a
long-lasting
effort taken by the stage director Blaho Uhlár (1951)
and the designer
Miloš Karásek (1960) in the field of amateur and
professional theatre.
They both deeply felt the impotence of current
theatres in their
struggle
for the search and transplantation of a new theatre
vision as well as
their
unwillingness to reject the established creative
methods and apply new
ones. Since 1992 the group has performed at its stage
in Bratislava
where
twenty two productions were premiered and 1000
performances
have
been staged up to October 2005. The created projects,
including
playwriting, were mostly
the
result of teamwork of all the theatre group members.
The theatre poetic
touches upon all spheres of often delicate and
intentionally subtly
anticipated
relationships and moments of human existence which can
only be
expressed
emotionally without any words. As far as the
organization is concerned,
the theatre group has not been recognized officially
within 0the
context
of Slovak theatre and the state cultural bureaucracy
has been unable,
in
the four years of the theatre°s existence, to find a
way of subsidizing
this markedly non-commercial ensemble. Thus, they have
been constantly
deprived of their life guarantees and the ensemble
members often do not
even receive any financial support in several
successive months.
Despite
these difficulties, critics labelled the production of
"Eo Ipso" (1994)
the event of the year.


PARTICIPATION
IN FESTIVALS
Prehliadka
českého a slovenského divadla Vijk aan Zee Holandsko
(Impasse) 26.6.1991
Light
removes darkness - svetová prehliadka alternatívneho
umenia Praha
(Impasse)
2.8.1991
Divadlo
bez hraníc Bratislava prehliadka slovenského a
rakúskeho divadla
(Impasse)
22.9.1991
Prehliadka
alternatívneho umenia Viedeň (Impasse) 29.9.1991
FISH
Festival inscenácií slovenských hier Bratislava
(Impasse) 24.11. 1991
Inšpiratívna
prehliadka experimentálnych slovenských divadiel
Brno (Impasse)
25.11.1991
Setkání
- Stretnutie Prehliadka českého a slovenského
divadla Zlín (Impasse)
26.11.1991
Prehliadka
Fóra mladých divadelníkov Medzičas Bratislava
(Impasse) 30.11. 1991
Týden
českého a slovenského divadla Praha (Impasse) 31.1.
1992
Festival
Maszk, medzinárodná prehliadka netradičného divadla
Szeged, Maďarsko
(Impasse)
5.8.1992
Divadelná
Nitra '92 (Dyp inaf) 26.9.1992
Salón
SaDistů Praha (Koncert, Sami meri vari) 4.11.1992
(Kolaps) 5.11.1992
Prehliadka
slovenského umenia Kodaň, Dánsko (Sami meri vari)
18.4.1993
Mimos
'93 Périgueux Francúzsko - Cena kritiky (Impasse)
8.-10.8.93
Divadlo
v pohybe Brno Česká republika (Len čajka...,
Donárium) 6.9.93
Festival
slovenského umenia Die Francúzsko (Impasse, Koncert,
Donárium)
16.-19.9.93
Divadelná
Nitra '93 (Len čajka..., Koncert) 25.,26.9.93
Divadlo
ďeťom '93 Bratislava (Slepá baba) 30.9.93
Setkání
- stretnutie Reduta Praha Česká republika (Len
čajka...) 1.11.93
Divadlo
'93 Plzeň Česká republika (Len čajka...) 18.11.93
FISH
Festival inscenácií slovenských hier Prešov Donárium
1.2.1994
Medzinárodný
festival súčasného divadla Lausanne Švajčiarsko
(Vres) 29. 30. 31.
8.1994
Kašparův
kolínský memoriál Kolín Česká republika (Impasse)
18. 9. 1994
Divadelná
Nitra '94 Nitra (Eo ipso) 26. 9. 1994
Prisma
2 Oldenburg Spolková republika Nemecko (Dyp inaf) 6.
10. 1994
Divadlo'94
Plzeň Česká republika (Eo ipso) 12. 11. 1994
VISITING
ENSEMBLES AT STOKA
Divadlo
Buďmo - Kyjev, Ukrajina 1994
Theater
Fusion Gelsenkirchen, Nemecko 1993
Súbor
moderného tanca Billa Younga New York, USA
1994
Teatro
Tatro Nitra, Slovensko 1992, 1993
Divadlo
na rázcestí Banská Bystrica, Slovensko 1994
Leen
Teatro Praha, Česká republika 1993
Divadlo
Vpřed Praha, Česká republika 1993

BIOGRAPHY
Peter
Batthyányi (1966) studied horse
breeding and
horsemanship.
He has worked for Stoka (Sewer) since 1992.
Ľubomír
Burgr (1964) studied the violin
at the State
Conservatoire
in Košice. He has worked for the Stoka Theatre as an
actor and composer
since 1991.
Ingrid
Hrubaničová (1965) studied at
the University of
P.J.
Šafárik in Prešov. She has worked for the Stoka
Theatre since 1991.
Jozef
Chmel (1965) studied geodesy
and cartography at
the
Slovak Technical University. He has been engaged in
the Stoka Theatre
as
an actor since the company°s foundation.
Laco
Kerata (1961) studied directing
at the Academy
of
Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava. He has worked
at the Stoka
Theatre
as an actor and stage director since its foundation.
Erika
Lásková (1965) studied at the
Secondary
Technical
School of Chemistry. She has been engaged in the Stoka
Theatre as an
actress
since its foundation.
Lucia
Piussi (1971) studied script
writing at the
Academy
of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava. She has
worked for the Stoka
Theatre since 1991.
Zuzana
Piussi (1971) has worked for
the Stoka Theatre
as
an actress and stage and costume designer since 1992.
Blaho
Uhlár (1951) studied stage
direction at the
Academy
of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava in 1974.
Until 1991 he worked
as a stage director at state theatres. He was one of
the co-founders of
the Stoka Theatre in 1991 and has worked there as a
stage director and
organizer since then.
Veronika
Turanová (1968) Studied the
voice at the State
Conservatoire
in Bratislava. She has worked for the Stoka Theatre
since 1991.
Vlado
Zboroň (1960) studied at the
Faculty of
Theology.
He has worked at the Stoka Theatre as an actor since
1991.

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