The Community and its Values. Contemporary Slovak Drama and Theatre in a Post-Traumatic Perspective (Preliminary Study)

The article focuses on the key contexts and stages in the development of Slovak drama and theater after 1989, and preliminarily identifies possible areas of research in the proposed perspective, taking into account, above all, the correlation between drama and theatre and transformations in cultural models. The change of a system is understood as a traumatic experience, leading to disorganisation and destabilisation of existing patterns, requiring strategies and actions to overcome the crisis. The results of these activities – reinterpretations of the past, development of new ways of understanding community and identity, greater sensitivity – can be associated with the process of post-traumatic growth, co-created and reflected by the texts of culture, among others – dramatic and theatrical works.