In the 2024/2025 season, we have prepared eight titles for theatre connoisseurs, reflecting on a new phenomenon: decency and compassion against vulgarity and victimhood. Or what happens when the aggression of the masses leads to escalated behaviour, and whether the power of collective resistance against totalitarianism can be found, or whether it is only the role of the powerless individual. There will be both family-type initiation titles and reflections on the foresight of those with short memories. It's a season of western classical literature in which women directors are given a prominent place. In the Drama Hall we will present a drama about unfulfilled fatal love, personal honour and the legacy of blood by Spanish playwright Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding, directed by Ján Luterán. The adaptation of Robert Crichton's brilliant and ironic novel The Secret of Santa Vittoria, about the collective revolt of an Italian town against Nazism, will be directed by Alena Lelkova. Sometimes evil can only be laughed at. The Romanian playwright and director Gianina Carbunariu will join us from abroad. She will prepare an Original Project for the Drama Theatre of the Slovak National Theatre, featuring contemporary issues and reflections on the new paradoxes of the world in which it is no longer easy to find dialogue. We will present a dramatisation of the short stories by the famous French writer Guy de Maupassant, Boule de Suif [Dumpling] directed by Michal Vajdička. The iconic short story is an ironic, grotesque, yet very human exploration of volatile characters in a borderline situation. We will immerse into the adaptation of three prose pieces by one of the most important Slovak prose writers, Dominik Tatarka, directed by David Paška and titled Tatarka. We will then explore charlatanism and generational money spending in Molière's comedy The Imaginary Invalid, directed by Pavel Viecha. Then, we will cross the boundaries of absurd comedy in Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros, directed by Julia Rázusová. We will dive into the inner world of the elderly in the play Ghosts Are Only Human by Swiss author Katja Brunner and directed by Kamila Polívkova. May good literature, fine direction, and exceptional acting be our good companions in a new season in which no one will be ashamed to remain a decent human being and preserve their memory.