Merema - Mental hospital

Care home for mentally ill “MEREMA“in Slovakia - Harmónia takes care of men in age from 22 to 60 years. Drama therapy is one of ways to develop their abilities and to provide them with dignity and quality of their lives. They are the actors of heart. They do not act sadness, they are sad. It is the same with happiness. Their acting is truthful and simple-hearted, the do not know how to lie. Thanks to the staff who take care of them, they travel across the whole Slovakia and act for everyone. They love to play theatre for people. In the theatrical play named “Time machine” a boy with mentally disability travels into the past and also into the future to find some friends. Unfortunately he can’t find people who would accept him. At the end he finds himself in the presence and here he meets friends who accept him as he is. The whole play is galanty but in the end the viewer can see that they are also mentally disabled. They accept all people as they are, but do we accept them in the same way?