Women’s Theatre

The creation of the book Feminist Theatre and its Slovak Journey is closely related to the activities of Studio TWIGA, which combined several methods in its theatrical work: authorial theatre, documentary theatre methodologies, elements of post-dramatic theatre, cross-dressing, cross-voicing, cross-acting and gender studies. Initially, the studio defined itself as a gynocritical theatre, deriving its existence from the literary-scientific coined by E. Showalter. This was related to the project and its opinions on the so-called female subculture within the dominant culture. Based on these theoretical and practical foundations in the theatrical creation of the studio, I. Škripková wrote her dissertation Femini[(ta)- (zácia)]zmy a divadlo in 2016. Its creation was initiated by Prof. D. Inštitorisová. The work was defended at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra in the given year. In 2017, the work was selected by the expert committee of the Theatre Institute, and in 2018 – 2019, it was revised and edited for printing. The book is devoted to the existence of feminism in foreign practice, in the Slovak environment, and in the work itself in BDNR. It highlights heretofore little-known information about feminism abroad and in Slovakia. The book was published in 2022 under the title Feminist Theatre and its Slovak Journey. The launch event took place at the Theatre Institute (Studio 12) in Bratislava on November 22, 2022. The book also includes the author’s original text MOCAD(R)ÁMY. The book is based on the author’s dissertation, and represents the period of the emergence of feminist theatrology and feminist theatres in the Anglophone region in the 1970s, interrogates the situation in Slovakia, and analyzes the activities of Studio T.W.I.G.A. The book was introduced by Prof. Nadežda Lindovská and christened by Jana Juráňová.

Invitation: Theatre Institute

Iveta Škripková: Feminist Theatre and its Slovak Journey
Theatrum vitae edition
First edition
Theatre Institute, Bratislava 2022
Reviewers: Mgr. Lenka Kukurová, Ph.D., Mgr. art. Eva Kyselová, Ph.D.
Illustrations: Slavomíra Ondrušová
Cover design, graphic design, page setting: Eva Šimovičová, Dominika Valentovičová

Media responses to the book Feminist Theatre and its Slovak Journey

Theatre Institute Bratislava video Book of the Month

Zuzana Golianová’s interview with Iveta Škripková for Rádio Devín Guest tuned to Devín

What’s happening in and around Bratislava citylife.sk

News portal of the Czech Theatre divadlo.cz

News portal dnesky.sk

Pravda newspaper kultura.pravda.sk

TASR information portal teraz.sk

News portal for art the Art & History Magazine artandhistorymagazine.eu

Interview of RTVS reporter Marcel Hanáček with Iveta Škripková Female optics in the theatre

Director Anna Grusková’s interview with Iveta Škripková for KOD magazine 1/ 2023 Gender-aware theatre is like an X-Ray

The next presentation of the book took place on March 29, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. at BDNR, and the book was presented by theatrologist Nadežda Lindovská in an interview with Iveta Škripková.

For the mentioned book, Iveta Škripková received the Literary Fund Award for scientific and professional literature. The award was given by the committee of the Section for Scientific and Professional Literature and Computer Programs of the Literary Fund on October 3, 2023. You can read more about why it is a unique publication at the following link.