Birthday – a successful play by SkRAT Theatre

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As a text, SkRAT’s Birthday represents an authentic Slovak version of new European drama, which has appeared across different countries: Mark Ravenhill and Sarah Kane in Great Britain, Vasilij Sigarev in Russia, Biljana Srbljanovič in Serbia, Marius von Mayenburg in Germany to mention at least the best known artists. In Slovakia, we can detect this new tendency in works of Viliam Klimáček, especially in his play Hypermarket…

Juraj Šebesta, IS.theatre.sk, 4. 12. 2007