Ráchel Rimarčíková
she/her
I am a playwright, performance artist, and activist. I am currently finishing my studies in Theatre Dramaturgy and Playwriting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, and I’m genuinely excited about whatever art brings into my life after graduation!
My primary focus is writing dramatic texts – for the stage as well as for radio. My radio plays include THE BLUE WHALE, nominated in the Rising Star category at the international festival PRIX EUROPA 2023 and I HATE MY GIRLFRIEND, awarded for Outstanding Artistic Achievement (Direction and Authentic Generational Testimony) at the Radio Drama Festival 2025. My newest radio love is ASTROFÁNDLY.
From my stage texts, I’d highlight BARBER GLITTER SHIT SHOP (later adapted into a performance), EDGE (later presented as a staged reading), and ERGOT: Metamorphoses of Hospitality and Bleakness, presented at the Fiú event and the VELVET! Festival 2025 (later developed into a production and performance).
Besides playwrighting and directing, I also create performance art – a form I fell in love with for its chaotic ability of picture making. My works include the performance BARBER GLITTER SHIT SHOP (LAB Theatre; ZLOMVAZ Festival 2024 in Prague); BRAT and $ALT (Students for Open Culture!, LAB Theatre), originally created for the 2024 Theatre Night and later performed at the T3 - Cultural Space and at the benefit event for DRAMA QUEER at Pink Whale; the happening WIRETAP, created for a protest in front of Slovak Radio; and METAMORPHOSES OF HOSPITALITY AND BLEAKNESS, developed from my beloved Ergot.
I learned a great deal through my collaboration with the independent Theatre of Peter Mankovecký, where I completed an internship and later, in cooperation with the Academy of Performing Arts, co-created the original production DEMANDING THE IMPOSSIBLE. Other productions I contributed to as part of the directing–dramaturgy team include Ingmar Villqist’s ANAEROBES II. (LAB Theatre), my play ERGOT (LAB Theatre; Dream Factory Festival 2025 in Ostrava), and Henrik Ibsen’s AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.
Activism is also an inseparable part of my work – from my “eco-terrorist” tendencies (a joke… or is it?) in high school to contemporary cultural protests. I am the co-founder of the platform Students for Open Culture!, where I served as a leader for a year and received the Fair Act of the Year 2024 award for this work. I am no longer an active member of Open Culture!, because I want to express my viewpoints primarily through my dramatic and performative work – the place where I feel most at home.