Original Slovak musical
The story of Adam Šangala starts in a small Oravian village of Koziná at the moment when young Adam decides to leave it and set out to the world. On his wandering through Slovakia in the first quarter of the 17th century he meets beautiful landlady Judith who lets him know the secrets of love, he experiences personally the cruelty and the malevolence of masters and becomes an outlaw on the run. He is taken as a recruit to the Beckov castle. In the residence of the Praskovský aristocratic family he is in for a steep career (although almost unalphabeted, he becomes a personal assistant of young countess Brigitte), but an equally steep fall too. In Trnava he meets a merchant’s daughter Betty who becomes his fatal love …
The dramatic metaphor about Slovakia and Slovaks, about the desire to fly up to the sky and breath freely, and about the endeavour to pass over the shade of one’s own smallness and limitation was rehearsed by Jozef Bednárik in the Nitra Andrej Bagar Theatre in the year 2003. The musical freely inspired with the classical novel of the same name written by Ladislav Nádaši – Jégé, Slovak doctor and writer of the first Czechoslovak Republic, was written by screenwriter Jozef Paštéka and Slovak pop-music fixed starts Vašo Patejdl and Kamil Peteraj.
