Juraj Nvota

``We were delighted. The events followed one after another so quickly, that something with which we had no experience was beginning. We kept telling ourselves that we’d have to copy the “muster” of foundation of state from others, but I wasn’t a member of the coordination committee VPN. Thus I needn’t worry about this, but nevertheless, I had problems navigating the situation. Every once and then, somebody brought a message. Jaro Filip told us- Czechs have a great minister of interior. In Slovakia, Meciar was praised, wherever he appeared, he charmed everyone. Jaro said, these two Meciar and the Czech minister, they are great. But the situation started to look different. Events kept changing and one had problems staying orientated. One day we were signing for Carnogursky, another against him, one day we were signing for Meciar, another against him… It kept changing.``

"At the time, the whole repertoire in heaters, everything that was done when it didn't try to please the regime, it involved some secret speech with the audience, Esperanto between the lines. When Macbeth was staged, it was clearly about Husak, and the whole Macbeth’s tyranny was totalitarian communism. When the Mandate was staged, and so on, all the plays that were staged were encrypted. We picked them only with this in mind, that we can in the second plan enable viewers to meet with an opinion, which is shared by the whole society, but it cannot express it aloud. That opinion could not be published, only communicated through this Esperanto. Every song was in the end screened by the party, every statue was checked. It was so absurd…”