Iokasté
by Lukáš Brutovský
 
Direction: Lukáš Brutovský (SK)
Dramaturgy: Miro Dacho (SK)
Dramaturgical collaboration: Lenka Dombrovská (CZ)
Set design: Pavel Borák (CZ)
Costume design: Zuzana Hudáková (SK)
Music: Lukáš Brutovský 
Creative collaboration: Michaela Poliaková (SK)
Choreography: Martin Talaga (SK)
Video: Matouš Ondra (CZ)
On stage: Jana Oľhová, Juraj Poliak (Slovak Chamber Theater Martin), Petr Konáš (Prague City Theatres).
 
The Slovak Chamber Theatre, together with the Prague City Theatres create a coproduction staging with actors from both theatres. The director of the staging is Lukáš Brutovský the artistic director/theatre director of the Slovak Chamber theatre; the creative team is mixed from both countries.
28.10. 2022 – Slovak premiére in Martin
4.11.2022 – Czech premiére in Prague

Lukáš Brutovský:
Completed the Bilingual High School in Poprad and then graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, where he majored in theatre direction in the class led by Peter Mikulík. While still a student, he enjoyed success with his production of Russian classics, such as The Death of Tarelkin, A Profitable Position and Summerfolk which were performed at several international theatre festivals (Bratislava, Prague, Brno, Moscow) and received several awards. In 2012, Slovak critics nominated the production A Profitable Position to receive the Dosky Award in the Best Direction of the Season category. After the completion of his master’s programme, Brutovský continued as a doctoral student and, besides other activities, also taught international students. He has been collaborating with several Slovak and Czech theatres (Bratislava, Nitra, Martin, Brno, Kladno, Prague). In 2014, he became the laureate of the Divadelní noviny journal’s Prize for Best Direction of the Season for the production Maryša at the HaTheatre. Since 2015, he has worked as the artistic director of the Slovak Chamber Theatre in Martin.
 
Jana Oľhová:
Jana Olhová was born on December 31, 1959 in Myjava, Slovakia. She is a theatre and movie actress, known for movies Muzika (2008), Ďakujem, dobre (2013) and Prezít svuj zivot (teorie a praxe) (2010). She graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, dramatic art major. Since 1988 she has been a member of the Slovak Chamber Theatre in Martin. She is a teacher at the Film and Drama School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Banská Bystrica as well as at the Conservatorium in Žilina. She cooperates with the Municipal Theater in Žilina. She was awarded the prizes Dosky (2009, Mobil) At present time, she works mainly for the Slovak National Theatre and the Slovak Chamber Theatre in Martin and is considered to be one of the the greatest living actresses of her generation in Slovakia.
 
Petr Konáš:
He has been involved In Prague City Theatres since 2018/19 theatre season.
After the secondary school for geodesists he graduated from the High Vocational Actors School in Prague. He gained the role of Romeo in Shakespeare's drama Romeo and Juliet in the West Bohemian Theatre in Cheb which brought him a contract in the theatre for further five years and many distinctive roles.
After that experience he accepted an offer to become a part of the company of the Theatre od Josef Kajetán Tyl in Pilsen for the next six seasons. He rendered many important roles, among others in Odon von Horvath Kazimir and Caroline or Three sisters of A.P. Chekhov.
Great amount of wide popularity he has achieved through many roles in the Czech TV series.
 
Juraj Poliak:
A graduate from the Academy of Fine Artsand Design in 1997, Mr Poliak also spent time at École des Beaus-Arts Saint Étienne in France and the French Institute in Thessaloniki, Greece. In addition to visual art and exhibition projects, he is a stage designer. Together with Ivan Martinka and Andrej Kalinka, he created such productions as Epos (Puppet Theatre Žilina), Home Eros Faith, Beauty and Filth (Honey and Dust company). His works have been presented at a number of individual and group exhibitions in Slovak and international galleries.
Mr Poliak is the laureate of a range of prestigious awards, including the Grand Prix of the Ministry of National Cultural Heritage, the Prize and Honorary Mention of the Jury at International Biennial of Drawing and Graphic Art, Györ, Hungary (2001 and 2007). He won the Annual Prize of the Sights and Museums magazine and the Museum of the Year 2007 Award for the exhibition Collectors’ Journeys for the Museum of Coins and Medals in Kremnica, Slovakia. He received the 2015 DOSKY Award in the stage design category for the production Mojmír II, or the Fall of the Empire.
 

In 1990 Jack Lang and Giorgio Stehler founded the Union of European Theatres. The main aim of the association was "to build the European Union through culture and theatre, to encourage a collective cultural movement that overcomes barriers and language barriers in order to develop a theatre of art which is seen as a vector of fraternity between people.
 
In the year 2020 the global trauma caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has completely turned daily life upside down, it has kept entire social, cultural and economic sectors in place. A catastrophe, both in the sense we know today and in the original sense - in Greek sense of the word, katastrophé means a sudden change or a great upheaval. The project proposed by UTE and its partners aims to explore exactly this meaning, to look at the great upheaval caused by the pandemic from a new perspective, that of renewal, of reaffirming theatre as a space for reflection and as an element of cohesion in a divided Europe.
 
Under the specific perspective of the pandemic crisis and the disruption caused by war in Europe, Catastrophe looks to promote the resilience and recovery of important cultural operators, artists and cultural professionals and contributes to safeguard, develop and promote European cultural and linguistic diversity and heritage.
 
The project aims to return to the founding principles of UTE, bringing together important theatre institutions from Western and Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean area and the former Yugoslavia. These theatres will work together to create 5 co-productions based on the themes of ancient Greek tragedy. These themes - a kind of Esperanto not only of the performing arts but also of European experience - are the point of departure for the formulation of a collaborative and creative strategy in a post pandemic Europe, through new works of drama and theatre.
 
These co-productions are accompanied by related events (conferences, debates, workshops, etc.), which link artistic creation to the public. The culmination of the project - the Finisterra Festival - took place in Porto at Teatro Nacional São João from 27th January to 26th February 2023.
 
Partners :
 
Constanța State Theatre (Constanța, Romania)
Hungarian Theatre of Cluj (Cluj, Romania)
National Theatre of Northern Greece (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Prague City Theatres (Prague, Czech Republic)
SKD Martin (Martin, Slovakia)
SNT Drama Ljubljana (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain)
Teatro Nacional São João (Porto, Portugal)
Theatre Laboratory Sfumato (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Théâtre National de Strasbourg (Strasbourg, France)
Théâtre National du Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Yugoslav Drama Theatre (BelgradeIn 1990 Jack Lang and Giorgio Stehler founded the Union of European Theatres. The main aim of the association was "to build the European Union through culture and theatre, to encourage a collective cultural movement that overcomes barriers and language barriers in order to develop a theatre of art which is seen as a vector of as a vector of fraternity between people.
 
In the year 2020 the global trauma caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has completely turned daily life upside down, it has kept entire social, cultural and economic sectors in place. A catastrophe, both in the sense we know today and in the original sense - in Greek sense of the word, katastrophé means a sudden change or a great upheaval. The project proposed by UTE and its partners aims to to explore exactly this meaning, to look at the great upheaval caused by the pandemic from a new perspective, that of renewal, of reaffirming theatre as a space for reflection and as an element of cohesion in a divided Europe.
 
Under the specific perspective of the pandemic crisis and the disruption caused by war in Europe, Catastrophe looks to promote the resilience and recovery of important cultural operators, artists and cultural professionals and contributes to safeguard, develop and promote European cultural and linguistic diversity and heritage.
 
The project aims to return to the founding principles of UTE, bringing together important theatre institutions from Western and Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean area and the former Yugoslavia. These theatres will work together to create 5 co-productions based on the themes of ancient Greek tragedy. These themes - a kind of Esperanto not only of the performing arts but also of European experience - are the point of departure for the formulation of a collaborative and creative strategy in a post pandemic Europe, through new works of drama and theatre.
 
These co-productions will be accompanied by related events (conferences, debates, workshops, etc.), which will link artistic creation to the public. The culmination of the project - the Finisterra Festival - will take place in Porto at Teatro Nacional São João from 27th January to 26th February 2023.
 
Partners :
 
Constanța State Theatre (Constanța, Romania)
Hungarian Theatre of Cluj (Cluj, Romania)
National Theatre of Northern Greece (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Prague City Theatres (Prague, Czech Republic)
SKD Martin (Martin, Slovakia)
SNT Drama Ljubljana (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain)
Teatro Nacional São João (Porto, Portugal)
Theatre Laboratory Sfumato (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Théâtre National de Strasbourg (Strasbourg, France)
Théâtre National du Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Yugoslav Drama Theatre (Belgrade, Serbia)