Michal Murin

“Some still say that it was the most experimental theater in Slovakia. Those who have stayed in it and are still doing it have a really strong experience. We were seen as cult, mysterious, and I even caught the suspicion that we were taking drugs. We were non-communicative, it was non-verbal theater, that is, we didn't articulate anything. Everything was in gestures, but not pantomime, but abstract ... So actually, everyone could see what he wanted in it, and since the climate was as it was, everyone saw what he was cheering for. ”

“My father came from the northern part of Slovakia, that is, from the Polish border where there are Ruthenians, thus he was Ruthenian. However, in his ID he had Ukrainian nationality. And it wasn't clear to me, so I asked him why he was Ukrainian when he spoke Ruthenian. At that time, I learned, sometimes at grammar school, that Ruthenians as a nationality were forbidden. My father told me many years would pass, when we would be able to freely identify ourselves as Ruthenians. So that was another moment, and in this way, a young person gradually starts to decipher something. “