Social center for mentally ill people in Slovakia

We remembered a bit about our LOVE theater performance.

On June 12, 2013, in the A4-Zero space, we played a theater game called LÁSKA, which was created in collaboration with clients and directors, acting students at Ágnes Jókai, VŠMU. Our clients were acting, the choreographer was in charge of Elena Lindtner.

The look was full, Mrs Zita Furková, who we thank very much, came to support us too. Before and after the show, visitors could see and also buy artistic creations from clients of the rehabilitation center. How it all looked like you can see in a short video prepared for us by Števo Kurilla. For video click here: video LOVERS

We have gained inspiration for further creative activity.

Authors a game

Everyone loves their own experience, she has her own gentleness. That is why we did not want to process some well-known theatrical play. We have decided to bring love to you as we know it. We've created this game together. Love brings us to life, so we show it from the teens to the love of old people. We have noticed that love also has its own seasons, and that is why we have shaped this form in individual scenes. Just as we met her in the Moste. Sometimes we may be sad, ironic, closed, funny. Here we dance mainly for our joy.

Actors' thoughts about love

"On the reflection on love, I'm not going to um, When you ask why, I'll tell you - darum."

"Love is actually art ..."

"For me is the word love - sadness, the desire for the former man!"

"Love between man and woman is a wonderful thing ..."

"The two partners man and woman ... One of them (a man) begins to cheat his wife (a lover's triangle). She will find out and shoot him, he will die. She then finds that she loves him and then suicides. "

"My friend knows how to cheer me when I'm sad, I draw the strength of his embrace, every single signal of his behavior confirms that he really loves me."

"Love is when you love someone because it exists at all."

What connects us

The idea to open a theater workshop was created in Dss-Most earlier, but in 2012 the real people meet in its realization. In the interviews of the acting student Ági Jókai and the participants of the theater workshop, the first performance gradually became a face. Finally, these were the relationships that all brought together. Whatever we do in our relationships, we all need them to live. What our clients sometimes find difficult to express in their everyday lives is that participants have attempted to express themselves in a theatrical form. Presenting the fragile and very personal view of love, we open the way to mutual recognition. Sometimes even the unreadable behavior conceals the same need for a close relationship.

We and they?

People with mental disorders - users of psychiatric services - often bear the various difficulties that the disorder brings and remain.

Because they mostly can not ask for effective help their surroundings, they live in the circle of their loved ones and rarely manage to find their place and understanding in the wider community as well. People often approach them - this is us and they are them, they are different. This game shows how much we are similar. House of Social Services - MOST, n.o. is a registered provider of social services for a rehabilitation center and supported housing. With his services, since 2003, he has been working to create a functioning system of comprehensive community services for adult people who are in disability due to a serious mental disorder. Our goal is to create the conditions for their greater autonomy in everyday life, respecting the specific and individual needs and needs of their clients.