HEART BELONGS TO JAIL

David Košťák

Genre: drama
Cast: variable cast

Play is composed of fate of three characters. Young man from China comes to Czech Republic after sound of heart of his father. The heart was transplanted ilegally. He comes to listen to his beating for a last time. Young European woman starts to realize the impact of her everyday acting. She realizes with horror that today it is impossible to be a good man. Nobody is good these days. There are only people who realize their guilt and those who don’t. Third hero is character from animated show for children – Little Mole. Panda lures him to  China because she wants to use his innocence to promote Chinese regime. Little Mole leaves to China with her and becomes withness of horrible missuse of human rights.

Postmodern collage was written in residency on concrete theme: violence. However play shows the most dangerous violence. The violence which is invisible, which is not direct. The violence that is a part of our everyday life. Play display it in absurd and grotesque scenes that force people to think about their own responsibility and the impact of their own deeds. The play as it’s main character of Chinese man doesn’t point finger at anyone but it wants to talk to peope who thinks about the state of contemporary world. That’s why the man speak with the audience in the end: „It is here. It sits with you. Somewhere among you there is chest, in which it beats. I don’t want to take it back. Please… I beg… let me sit with you… and listen. The heart of my father. It’s not happy here. But it still beats”.

  The play is available in English.