The black light theatre utilizes the fact that actors dressed in black cannot be seen on a dark stage – unlike their props. This gives the impression that things the actors move levitate and come to life. The most famous Srnec’s shows were Striped Dream, Legends of Old Mother Prague, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Labyrinth, A Week of Dreams, White Pierrot in Black.

Srnec worked with the Semafor Theatre, Laterna Magika, Spejbl and Hurvínek Theatre, and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. In the early 1990s, he established and managed the Imaginativ Prague ensemble. In 2011, he was awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus. He received the Thalia Award for his outstanding artistic contribution to Czech theatre three years ago.

Srnec came up with the idea to establish a theatre at university. He started to create the first performance in which invisible actors “do magic” with floating objects and light with his classmates in 1959. The company was invited to the youth festival in Vienna, then to Kyiv and Moscow. This is the time when the famous etude The Laundress was created.