Nicholas Royle - I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - th

I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe.

- Nicholas Royle

topic: Artist, Europe, Theatre, Eastern Europe, Brecht, Czech