Thalia Theater

in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1969-1990), the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (1990-1992) and finally in the Slovak Republic (1993-). In recent decades, Košice has also undergone major changes. While the population grew rapidly, the number of Hungarians changed significantly. At the last census in 2011, only 2.8 percent declared themselves to be of Hungarian nationality in Slovakia's second largest city.

The theater was originally founded with the aim not only to operate in its stone seat, ie only in Košice, but as a traveling theater, the traveling association developed its activity throughout the country, and most of the north-eastern part of Hungary is a natural and important playing place. . The importance of this decision, the presence in the narrower and wider Hungarian-populated region, has strategically deepened over time and has become vital.

The life of the Thália Színház Theater so far is also reminiscent of the situation of a wise deva from folk tales, whose task was to bring something, even not, to be or not to be. This was not the role of the Theater, but it was dictated by cultural policy and social events: it operated in Košice, and yet it was not, it was a professional "stone" theater, and yet it was not. It was independent, but not independent. It had its own sister theater, but it was not always positive, and it was not always clear. And although it was founded in 1969, it did not succeed in becoming independent until 1990. After 21 years of operation, the institution could replace the name "stage" with the name "theater". Despite the fact that the Thália Színház Theater, according to the founder Sándor Beke, director - director, was established because "the city in which trams operate can support the theater", the theater still functions as a tour theater, traveling to smaller and larger cities and towns.

The party's decision from 1959 considered that, in addition to the Matesz (Hungarian Regional Theater) located in Komárno, another Hungarian regional theater was created, according to the original plans in Rožňava, based on the Matesz-merged Folk Theater. 10 years later, the Vox Humana Theater was established, but officially the name could not be used for a moment.

The human vox is primarily a resonator mandrel on the tribic organ, which was named because of its presumed resemblance to the human voice. The starting point of the name of the Theater was the ideas of the "Stosk hermit" Zoltán Fábry, a writer, a critic who in every situation considered it important to "sound the human voice, the human idea". The naming of the human voice in 1969 was reminiscent of the program of the main representative of the Prague Spring of 1968, the Slovak politician Alexander Dubček, "socialism with a human face", and this free translation led to an immediate ban on the use of the name. The new name had to be decided quickly, and the decision in Košice, the city that had been considered the acropolis of Hungarian theater since the establishment of the first Hungarian - language theater association in 1816, fell on Thalia - the museum of theater. And although the institution bore the name Scéna Thália, until recently it retained the idea of Vox Human in its logo, because the work of the sculptor János Nagy was based on it. Traditional crying - laughing masks of human faces, putting one of their hands to their mouths, talk, sing, scream, acknowledge.

The first director of the Thalia Stage was Sándor Beke, the first playwright Sándor Gál. Part of the association was created by a more progressive part of Matesz in Komárno: Ferenc Lengyel, Ilona Gombos, Béla Várady, Mihály Gyurkovics, Zsuzsa Varga, László Csendes. In addition, a selection procedure was held, on the basis of which Mária Kövesdi Szabó, Jolán Tamás, Eszter Bittó, György Érsek and Lajos Horváth joined the theater. The first premiere was the comedy "Servant of Two Masters" on November 29, 1969 in the cultural house of Gemerská Hôrka, as the Košice seat of the theater was not yet ready. The creation of theater spaces began in the great hall of the legendary "Košice industrial school", ie today the Secondary Industrial School of Jozef Szakkay, which used these spaces as a gymnasium. Most of the construction and reconstruction were carried out by members of the ensemble and collaborators on their own initiative and on their own initiative. Out of enthusiasm, mission and from the gym, a theater was established in Košice, where in the middle of 1970 the ensemble presented itself to Košice audiences.

With the exception of four years between 1990 and 2011, Peter Kolár led the Thália Színház Theater in Košice, and independence also is linked to its menu. In the period 1996-1999, which marked the period of the Mečiar intention, Tibor Fabó was the director of the theater. In 1993, the theater bought the property in which Márai's studio opened in 1994. The reconstruction of the building lasted in the years 1994-2002. The two-seat "big hall" of the theater is still not owned by the theater, but is under the founding authority of the Košice self-governing region, the headquarters, economic department and 100-seat theater studio are located in the property itself. Since 2011, the Thália Színház Theater has been run by director József Czajlik.

Košice is a center of trade, a city of cultural color, Berlin of Slovakia, a city of Košice burgher, Márai, the European Capital of Culture 2013, and at the same time a lively theatrical life living city. On February 15, 1833, the original premiere of József Katon's Bánk bán was presented here, with Róza Széppataki Déryné, Kántorné, Megyeri, Gábor Egressy, Béni Egressy and many others, all the greatest representatives of the theater. Košice's theater was also influenced by Endre Latabár and the Latabár dynasty, and Ödön Faragó and his ensemble also had a significant influence.

The Thália Színház Theater in Košice is a national theater, but in addition to the Hungarian audience in Slovakia, it tries to appeal to every theater lover, theater critic, or spectator looking for fun, or spiritual or aesthetic adventure on both sides of the border. It is currently the northernmost Hungarian-language theater in Europe.