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Drama 5

Elias Canetti’s Crowds and Power, a serious psychological study of common people and their idea of power was another project with Anton Korentsy.

Anton, Vladislav’s former schoolmate from the Academy founded his own platform AntiTeatro after he had left his job as the director of Malá Scéna – a semiprofessional theater in Bratislava, where both Vladislav and Anton cooperated on a chamber musical Peter and Lucy.

Alta Vášová (Slovak librettist), Ján Štrasser (Slovak poet) and Dežo Ursiny (founder of Slovak bigbeat and artrock music) were a famous artist collective which had produced several well-received musicals during the communist regime. Peter and Lucy, based on the Romain Rolland‘s novel, was their third musical which was put on hold by the censorship committee just before they started rehearsing it at Nová Scéna Theater in the 80s. Twenty years later, Kubo Ursiny, Dežo’s son, came across a cassette with the musical on it and started searching a venue for it. The search was successful and during the talks with Anton Korentsy in Malá Scéna Theater, he proposed Talent Transport trio as a suitable band with Vladislav as the arranger. The premiere took place in 2013 and was a great success, continuing for about 10 more months. The play was eventually remade into a CD album in 2018, giving the play a new lease of life in Zlínske Divadlo in the same year.