Alexander Duchnovič Theatre

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The Alexander Duchnovič Theatre

Alexander Duchnovič

The Alexander Duchnovič Theatre (Rusyn: Tеатр Александра Духновича; Slovak: Divadlo Alexandra Duchnoviča), located in Prešov, is the only Slovak theatre providing plays in the Rusyn language.

[edit] History

The Alexander Duchnovič Theatre was founded in 1945 as a Ukrainian national Theatre (Rusyn language was officially prohibited^{[citation needed]}). In 1990 after Velvet revolution and fall of communism in Czechoslovakia it was renamed after a priest and social activist of the Rusyn and Ukrainian nations Alexander Duchnovič.