How Power Tastes

Divadlo Feste presents a stage adaptation of Mňačko's novel as part of the "Slovak Year 25" dramaturgy. The story of an ambitious rise to political power and gradual moral decline remains surprisingly relevant more than 50 years after the book's creation.

The environment of steep male political careers in the Czech and Slovak context continues to grow denser — loyalty and the ability to self-perpetuate push morality and knowledge into the background.