Each year, the main programme of Divadelná Nitra is created by seasoned theatre professionals with many years worth of experience, and their curatorial selection reflects the theme of the given festival year. For 2020, the Board of Curators has grown…
When we conceived the theme for the 29th International Theatre Festival Divadelná Nitra in late 2019, we had not suspected the power and urgency it would gain over the spring of 2020. All of a sudden, we are all in…
Our fight for freedom has not come to an end with the fall of communism. Stories of men and women who face systematic manipulation are still written in today’s, free age. Some are told…
The use and abuse of freedom is a theme that has occupied humanity since times immemorial. Productions in the main programme of the International Theatre Festival Divadelná Nitra (27 September…
30th anniversary of the fall of Communism lends an opportunity to celebrate the freedom we won, and yet also to contemplate the faces of freedom in the world today. The…
Along with the productions within the main programme, Divadelná Nitra presents a range of off-programme events reflecting the Festival leitmotif: faces freedom. Festival visitors will have an opportunity to speak…
It is with deep sadness and regret that we have learned of yesterday’s passing of director Eimuntas Nekrošius from the MENO FORTAS Theatre in Vilnius, Lithuania. A remarkable , director…
On 8 January 2019 in Bratislava,President Andrej Kiska awarded highest national honours for the final time in office. These were conferred onto 30 personalities – 15 women and 15 men. Among these was Darina…
Almost 300 plays, more than 5 000 photographs and about 250 video recordings of productions staged over the course of 27 years of the International Theatre Festival Divadelná Nitra will soon…
The Audience Programme Board has convened for the first time. March saw the first activities for the prepared international project Be SpectACTive!, whose purpose, among other things, is to activate local…