Karel Král

"At that time I worked in the Theatre Institute as the director of the documentation department. I also collaborated with the theatre director Petr Scherhaufer who worked both in the Husa na provázku theatre in Brno and in the Lucerna amateur theatre in Prague. It went on simultaneously for several years. I also worked with Ondřej Černý and Marie Reslová and a lot of other people as a kind of a semi-legal bulletin – we called it the Voice of the young theatre artists (Aktiva mladých divadelníků). We were very proud that the oldest member was 80 years old – Josef Šafařík. And we wrote this bulletin and at that time, in 1989, I was already wondering what I should do because I couldn’t manage to do it all properly. The first thing I left behind was the collaboration with the Lucerna theatre. And I also realized that the bulletin has reached the state when we couldn’t continue on the amateur basis and we had to make it a proper magazine. So I asked my friends at the Jazz section about the possibility to write it under them. And from my point of view, the revolution came just in time because we changed the bulletin, partly with the financial support of the state, into the Svět a divadlo magazine. So yes, I had it all well prepared.”