Anna Grusková (SK)
Sarcophaguses and Cash Points – collective writing – case study
The contribution aims to present the new collective project Sarcophaguses and Cash Points launched by the Theatre Institute in Bratislava. The aim of the project was to write a multi-play about the contemporary Slovakia and express a unique generation experience of the last 20 years after 1989. The chosen generation between 40 – 50 years was in 1989 in its mature age, spent half of its life in socialism and the second half in society in transition. It’s experience of power misusing in so-called “normalization” time in 70. generally separated it in two groups: so-called inner emigrants and cynical carpet-baggers. Values what helped them to survive in totalitarian society became suddenly an old-fashioned burden or an effective way how to climb up.
18 playwrights and writers have written 16 short plays (ca 2000 words) what could be in the end divided in 4 thematic keys: 1. Key to men and women, 2. Key to today’s conscience, 3. Key to drug of the past, 4. Key to design of the future. Following authors took part in the project: Karol D. Horváth, Laco Kerata, Silvester Lavrík, Iveta Horváthová, Ľubo Burgr, Martin Ciel, Uršula Kovalyk, Ľuba Lesná, Pavol Weiss, Viki Janoušková, Jana Juráňová, Roman Polák, Vanda Feriancová, Marius Kopcsay, Viliam Klimáček, Zuzana Uličianska, Dušan Vicen and Anna Grusková, who is also the author of the concept and dramaturge of the project.