Emma Srncová

"Everything was incredible for us, including the castle where we played the night show. There was a gentleman who was guarding us, and he had to play with us in black as well, because we were missing people they wouldn't let go with us. We went on the stage after the Shakespeare Company, who had sand all over the stage and always had to clear it away. There were about six or eight, maybe ten of us that would go to the theatre, and there were some handsome men that would come in, made up and covered in red paint, because they were like killed. They stared and so did we. And what happened was that there was a great success and the theater took off in an incredible way."

"We lived in the square where the reform was taking place. I know that at that time some people were tearing down a bronze statue of Masaryk from the theatre. They were hitting it. It was terrible. My mother would rush us all away from the window and say, 'Please don't go near the window.' In the end it turned out that the police or the secret service had been filming it all. And they evicted all the people who were excitedly looking out the window from Pilsen."