The Role of the Director and His Impact on the Dramaturgy of the Slovak National Theatre in the Interwar Period

The most important cultural establishment in Slovakia, the Slovak National Theatre (SNT),was founded 1920. beginnings of this institution were extremely complicated because itsactivities not managed by state, but a private company called Cooperative theSlovak Theatre. This joint was 1919 and consisted representativesof then governing bodies, intelligentsia, representatives banks otherassociations. In first two seasons, dealing with operation issues, mostly withobtaining financial resources needed. complete artistic program hands firstdirector SNT, Bedřich Jeřábek (1920–1922). During period, however, we cannot talk aboutthe profiling dramaturgy opera operetta on SNT stage. period followed bythat directors entrepreneurs Oskar Nedbal (1923–1930) Antonín Drašar (1931–1938), who due to incompetence Cooperative, took management theSNT fully into their own hands. Both directors, together heads ensembles,preferred modern experimental dramaturgy, including latest works art. Whereas Drašarused pragmatic approach resolving theatre’s problems, for caused lossof his function life.This study deals comparison work theatre individual directorsin interwar an emphasis dramaturgy.