English Translation

52-9 Dear E. F. Burian, I answer questions from your poll. Ad l. I agree. However, not only the new Czech authors will be introduced. You said yourself and it was not so long ago, about two years ago: The old game or the new one doesn't really matter. So why so stubbornly, even if it's right, to insist on contemporary authors and not to play something else, when in the end, how many times today and its problems are spoken and solved - if not completely, at least partially, stuck in the game, maybe several centuries old. I remember Mana so much about Benedette Croce and his: It is necessary to inspire people with general feelings, ideals, knowledge that everyone has their mission and that they have to devote themselves to him and that this devotion to the ideal is multiplying forces and allowing what seems to be impossible for the little faithful... This would also be the task of your theatre, and I think it is important enough. Continue on the way of the erected Humility ©Plavníci. Ad 2. However, I believe that even though success and value are concepts that are highly relative, conditional and at a given time and its quivering or mood of viewers at the moment when they are watching the performance, yet there is still a quite or at least, in my opinion, should be a certain absolute value or something that would at least come close to it, something independent, which is valid all the time and always, something in the name of which one could condemn the bad and praise the good, something that even the enemy would have to acknowledge and bow before it... One goes to the theatre to kill time, the other to have fun. The first camp is much more numerous. This proves a strikingly constant noise in the chorus. It mainly concerns the places in par-terre noble. Most of the lodges also belong to the first camp. People in such boxes are turned back to the stage and the call does not stop at all. ©Von einem reisenden Ausländer. 1787" od 259