Its founders - Helena Philipová, Ivan Vyskočil, Jiří Suchý and Vladimír Vodička named their professional theatre after a street leading from the square to the river.

Three months later Ladislav Fialka and his mime group joined the company with their production Pantomime on the Balustrade, and brought back fame to the almost forgotten theatre genre.

The King Stag, Hamlet, The Karamazov Brothers, Marathon) and managed to group around himself a number of accomplished young actors (Jiří Bartoška, Karel Heřmánek, Jana Preissová, Pavel Zedníček, Ladislav Mrkvička).

Petr Lébl was one of the most talented young directors with distinctive imagination who provoked with his interpretations of classics (Jean Genet's The Maids, Ladislav Stroupežnický's Our Our Swaggerers, Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, Ivanov, Uncle Vanya).

Programming decisions as well as other projects of the theatre will be based on this topic: the upcoming season will bring exhibitions and meetings with witnesses to the changes that parts of the city have gone through.