Košťák, David (Argentina)

David Košták was born in 1991 in Prague. He works as dramaturg in Theatre LETÍ. He started to write his own plays during his studies but he debuted in 2013, when Theatre LETÍ performed his short play Fresh Love. The play already dealed with topics that he works with quite often in his work – man responsibility at the level of interpersonal relationships, but also his responsibility for a state of todays world. In his plays he often works with remarkable metaphor and with elements of magic realism, that are at a starting point of a plot. His genre range is quite varied. His plays include post-dramatic texts, intimate relationship drama, plays for youth, adaptations of literature and he regularly writes scripts for immersive theater. To this date, he has had three plays performed internationally: Bird Woman (Catalan Sala Beckett), Lajka (Romania), Over the Spilled Milky Way (Italy).

At the moment he is working on an opera libretto for the opera of the South Bohemian Theater and a play about Bertolt Brecht for Theatre LETÍ. David Košťák belongs to the authors of the youngest generation, yet he has written a respectable number of plays, both original topics and author’s adaptations of classic literature. His plays mostly touch interpersonal relationship, the fate of individuals in today’s society, criticism of consumerism and other phenomena of today, he often refers to childhood memories and inner world of person. His plays are characterized by a poetic language, with a slight touch of playfulness and humor, but also pathos and tenderness.