V. Kollár / M. Kráľ: METROPOLKA

A powerful story of love, courage, humanity, and islands of freedom in totalitarian Slovakia.

A café, an apartment building, a cinema, a meeting place for many societies, a place where respect and tolerance prevailed in discussions. That is what the Bratislava Metropolka was. It was an island of freedom in troubled times. The same was represented by the labor camp in Nováky, where theater was practiced even during the war, and the Tatra revue cabaret for the actress Dalma Holanová Špitzerová.

The production of the Spiš Theater titled Metropolka, with elements of documentary theater and cabaret and a live band, captures the stages of the life of an unbreakable woman marked by two totalitarian regimes. During the Slovak State, she escaped a Jewish transport, and later the communists banned her from performing. Nevertheless, her story is one of determination, courage, humanity, and love. She is a symbol that under any circumstances, anywhere and anytime, a person can create their own Metropolka, their own island of freedom.

120 min. / suitable for ages 15 and up / smoking is allowed during the performance