People with disabilities are most often portrayed in films and literature as innocent victims - and that applies to blind people as well. Someone might therefore imagine that they spend their days simply sitting and suffering. But the life of a blind or partially sighted person can be just as funny, absurd, fulfilling, or embarrassing as anyone else’s.

Ivan Stodola’s play Tea at the Senator’s takes place almost a hundred years ago and captures the very beginnings of democracy in our region. Since democracy was something unfamiliar to the Slovak people at the time, it took newly enfranchised citizens a while to learn how to navigate this previously unknown political system.