Vzpomínky Petra Oslzlého - Husa na provázku, univerzita v bytě, s Havlem na Hradě, houfy bílých psíčků v dramaturgii i v životě… – Jeřábková Olga (2021)

For more than two decades, Olga Jeřábková has been preparing programs for Czech Radio in which invited guests reflect on their lives so far. She invites those whose stories not only captivate but also transcend the boundaries of their professions, and whose life experiences and perspectives deserve to be recorded. The best of these interviews are also published in print. This is the case for Petr Oslzlý, a prominent dramaturge from Brno, a key figure at the Husa na provázku Theatre, an actor, screenwriter, director, long-time head of the Center for Experimental Theatre, rector of JAMU, and last but not least, a civic activist, organizer of the theatre strike in 1989, and advisor to President Václav Havel. His life unfolded on stages that sometimes meant the world, but often also involved a struggle against domestic normalization cadres not only for freedom of artistic expression but primarily for civil liberties. For him, theatrical gestures merged with political ones. In ten narratives, readers will learn in a nutshell what really happened with Husa and the Theatre on the Rope, with the underground university, the theatre strike, whose red phone was in the former Husák's office, and whom Petr Oslzlý had to threaten with a strike in post-revolutionary times to...