Metropolka

The café, residential building, cinema, a meeting place for many associations, a place where respect and tolerance prevailed in discussions. This was the Bratislava Metropolka. It was an island of freedom in troubled times. The same was represented by the labor camp in Nováky, where theater was practiced even during wartime, and the Tatra revue cabaret for the actress Dalma Holanová Špitzerová. The production of the Spiš Theater titled Metropolka, featuring elements of documentary theater and cabaret, along with a live band, captures the stages of the life of an indomitable woman marked by two totalitarian regimes. During the Slovak State, she escaped through a Jewish transport, and later the Communists banned her from acting. Nevertheless, her story is one of determination, courage, humanity, and love. She is a symbol that a person can create their own Metrop under any circumstances, anywhere, and at any time.