Czech Theatre, 1988: Neo-Glasnost and Perestroika

Abstract

In 1988, twenty years after Czechoslovakia's prototypal glasnost and perestroika of the Prague Spring had been liquidated, Czech theatre was showing signs of more than fleeting revival. For most of the two intervening decades, the theatre once termed the most vital in Europe' had fought a holding action while the progressive reforms in politics and culture of the 1960s were systematically dismantled. During the 1970s and most of the 1980s those who remained in Czech theatre had to exercise