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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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When we consider the beginnings from which Slovak theatre has grown in the twentieth century, we can be in no doubt as to the enormous efforts invested by three or four generations of theatre practitioners.
If the 1950s were years of inertion and obscurity, the 1960s brought a new florescence and constitute Slovak theatre's second apex of the century.
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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker
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The court theatres of Lithuanian noblemen were important centres of drama, opera, and ballet in the second half of the 18th century.
Dating back to the 18th century, this is the one of the oldest and smallest working theatres in the country.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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The theatres that were more like our present concept of such a building were built towards the end of the nineteenth century.
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Todd Porter,
Gym Attendent
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The fourth century saw the really big names in acting and they pulled in the crowds for which the huge theatres like that at Epidauros were constructed.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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The theatre was opened by William Benbow, well known throughout the South in the early part of the 20th century for his black vaudeville troupes.
In the first two decades of the 20th century Slovak amateur theatre laid the foundations for the sharp progress that was to come.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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Our downtown theatres many dating from the turn of the century are opulent and state of the art, making each a truly memorable experience.
In the twentieth century theatres in Broadway, New York, they staged musicals about Mazepa.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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At the beginning of the century the theatres seemed already degenerating and ceasing to be cultural factors, except the Court theatres, which opposed this prostitution of the national art.
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