SCHÉMA KONTRA IMAGINATÍVNOSŤ – DVA NOETICKÉ PRINCÍPY NORMALIZAČNÉHO DIVADLA

The author deals with the development of Slovak professional theatre in the period before and after the occupation of the former Czechoslovakia. He highlights the situation in dramaturgy, which after a period of relative freedom and openness to influences from other cultures fell after 1970 under the pressure from dogmatists, demanding re-isolation of Slovak art from parallel processes in Europe and worldwide. The author shows how prominent personalities of Slovak theatre as well as the younger artists reacted to the pressure of political normalisation.