City Theatre Žilina

Searching for a new face
From this period, a new history of the Žilina theater begins to be written, an ambitious attempt to further professionalize it and find a new face. However, the management of the theater at the time - director Elena Dikošová (1996 -2007) and artistic director Rastislav Ballek (2003 - 2008) could not overcome the identifying features of the old Maják theater. The production of the theater remained oriented mainly towards the children's audience, and productions were mainly presented in the morning hours for organized groups of children and students. The theater organized educational concerts for children and invited many guest performances. The dramaturgy of the theater also began to focus on musicals, which should become attractive mainly for evening audiences. In the theater, director Anton Šulík directed a trilogy of bandit musicals Maľované na skla (2004), Gypsies go to heaven (2006) and Ballad for a bandit (2008). Among the greatest artistic contributions from this period is the production of Ivan Stodola's play Bačova žena directed by Marián Pecka (2004). It is interesting that even Rastislav Ballek in the Žilina theater did not succeed in surpassing the artistic quality of the author's productions Pustokvet, Atómy Boh and Bez Boh na svete, which were created during his internal work in the Martin theater. Since 2004, the Žilina Theater has started organizing the Žilina Midsummer's Eve international open theater festival.
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Vedla is a parish church with a church. In the summer season, it is accessible to tourists and there is a nice view of ZIlina from there.