At that time we didn’t know that the revolution would be as smooth as velvet
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Karel Král was born in 1953. He studied drama and film at Charles University. From 1979, he worked in the Theatre Institute, in the documentation department. In 1990, he worked also briefly as it‘s director. In the second half of the 80s, he issued with his colleagues a samizdat anthologies O divadle (On theatre). Their main platform was the Voice of the young theatre artists (Aktiva mladých divadelníků), a product of the Perestroika thawing of cultural ice. At the end of the 80s, he and his colleagues edited seven volumes and the Kafka ‚89 collection. The collections featured also some prohibited authors. They have gradually evolved into the Svět a divadlo (The World of Theatre) magazine. In November 1989 Karel Král established the Centre of Theatre Artists‘ strike at the Drama Institute. They created a so called information and documentation centre of the Czech theatre community. Král has become the chief editor of the Svět a divadlo magazine. In 1993, he established The International Theatre Festival, where he participated until 2001.
