A political tragicomedy
What do you actually think about me? That I’ll stab my government in the back?
An absurd comedy from 1971 about saving democracy in an unnamed Latin American country. Although everyone is intriguing against everyone else, it’s all in a good cause – why, the foundations of the new regime are still so fragile…! Any similarity with the situation today is completely accidental….
‘‘It’s as if we had close knowledge of the characters and their actions. We don’t have to go back to the years of normalization, remembered only by their creators in their new positions… As if Havel, at the beginning of the 70s, could see thirty years into the future. To a time when political puppets, while lining their own nests, are deciding our future, while the common people once again couldn’t care less… Havel’s thirty-five year old work is once again a Zeitstuck.’’
J. P. Kříž, Právo 11th April 2008
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