Could the stars of TV Mondays so much grow old? Could and it will happen to us all

17. June 2025 at 17:21

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« I wanted to go home, but someone misunderstood me and now I’m in my home, » says one of the characters. In the retirement home, where the nurses move the pegs on the walkways so that they no longer have to look into clients. In a place from which you are no longer leaving and in which you change alive into ghosts.

The drama of the Slovak National Theater was mentioned as its last production of the season of the extraordinary text of ghosts is also only people of the Swiss playwright Katje Brunner. He was directed by Kamila Polívková in the theater studio area.

Emília Vášáryová, František Kovár, Zuzana Kocúriková or Dušan Jamrich in it without embracing, stereotypes and simplification speak of aging and many of his levels.

As Slovakia will be one of the countries with the oldest population in Europe in just a few decades, we should listen to them very carefully.

I am no longer human, I look like a room plant

Director Kamila Polívková brings a disturbing vision of the world of the future to the stage of the Slovak National Theater for the second time. Her previous production The concert at demand spoke about the epidemic of loneliness, which fundamentally destroys the mental health of contemporaries. We should deal with the old age equally intensively.

The numbers could speak for everything. In 1980, thirteen percent of people over 60 lived in Slovakia. According to data from the Research Demographic Center, this share increased to twenty -two percent in 2018. In 2050, however, it will even be more than 37 percent. After 2050, according to the forecasts in Slovakia, the demographic curve of old age will also be height. There are only two adult people of working age per senior.