The professional era of Slovak theatre culture began with the opening of the Slovak National Theatre in March 1920. Even though we do not have a long tradition we can be proud of in comparison to our neighbouring countries, Slovak theatre caught up and was able to achieve major milestones and international successes in a little over a hundred years. A lot of the credit for this goes to the actors: in every historical period, there were distinctive personalities whose art made the young Slovak theatres noticeably more visible. One of the strongest generations was the group of actors...