Slovak theatre programme is chosen by Marián Amsler

For the selection of Slovak productions to the main programme of DN 2012 is designated Slovak theatre director Marián Amsler.

In 2011, in the programming of the 20^th jubilee year, we were inspired by the principles of programme selection used at some international theatre festivals – so-called curatorial selection by the theatre authority. So, in the jubilee year of the festival, for the first time we introduced an interesting and inspiring works of Slovak theatres from the viewpoint of Rastislav Ballek, a Slovak theatre director.

On the positive response of professional audiences from abroad and from Slovakia, we decided to continue on the method of curatorial selection of the programme and the curator for the selection of Slovak part of the main programme of DN 2012 is the theatre director Marián Amsler.
 

Marián Amsler graduated dramaturgy and theatre directing at Academy of  Performing Arts in Bratislava. As the theatre director he specializes in the presentation of current world, but also Czech and Slovak plays (O. Muchinová, V. Sigarev, F. Richtr, D. Gieselmann, P. Nagy, M. Hvorecký, V. Klimáček, E. Maliti-Fraňová, D. Drábek etc.).
He is co-founder and director of the Theatre Letí in Prague. He acted as the guest director at many Czech and Slovak theatres (Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava, Dejvice Theatre in Prague, Drama Studio in Ústí nad Labem, National Theatre in Brno – Reduta, Petr Bezruč Theatre in Ostrava, Andrej Bagar Theatre in Nitra, West-Czech Theatre in Cheb, etc.). He won two times the prestigious Slovak theatre prize BOARDS in the category The Newcomer of the season – for the directing of the productions of Chekhov's plays Platonov and Ivanov.

Since 2008 he acts as an internal director and since 2010 as an artistic director of HaDivadlo in Brno.