From the book "20 Years of Eurokaz", publisher: Eurokaz, book 002, 2006.

NEW THEATRE, BEGINNINGS

Eurokaz was created as a support and platform for a small area of twentieth century theatre history that had, in the now distant eighties, stirred up Europe and initiated a number of bold impulses that had arrived from the fields of technology and science, visual arts, new media, dance and movement - also rejecting a prevailing logo-centric order of the time.

The theatre signalled by the Eurokaz festival claimed to draw attention to the different attempts being made by serious art groups and directors towards liberating theatre from the ideology of text, political and utopian thought and indeed from any teleological blows of such kind; from all the prerogatives that had marked the student theatre of the sixties and which had settled into institutions during the seventies. By the end of the eighties these breakthroughs had collected under the somewhat unfortunate and dull name of new theatre and had, in time, evolved their own varying stylistic differences... (more in PDF below)