Audience 89

Tomáš Svoboda’s play, he sits shut up in a hyper-realistic home/recording studio, full of instruments, antiquated furniture and books, grappling with his writer’s block. Constantly plagued by the Actor and Director he faces the necessity of writing at least a few sentences, a few words or phrases to get the plot rolling. The dialogue, or in fact sketch, which he finally “chokes out” (inspired by the cacophony of sounds of a typewriter), though very brief and trivial, succeeds in firing his imagination and inspiring the three of them to create variants on the plot: they take this work in the tradition of the literary canon and comically deflate its gravity and alter its content; it also serves as lighthearted dubbing of dramatic scenes from the cinematic reservoir of Western pop culture.