Audience (Hearing)


Audience is a guitar to the play Audience (1975) by Václav Havel. It was broadcast by the Westdeutscher Rundfunk in 1976 under the title Audienz. Kees de Vries translated it and the NCRV broadcast it on Monday, May 22, 1978, from 22:19 to 23:00. The director was Ab van Eyk. Scrolling Content

Havel, one of the signatories and spokespersons of Charta 77 has been forced to earn a living as a unskilled worker in a brewery since Prague, due to his political commitment. It's not hard to discover Havel in one of the two protagonists of the game - a playwright who deserves his bread as a worker in a brewery. His opponent is the brewer, who has let him come to his office on a day for a conversation. Both men do not know what they have. The brewer is careful about greater confidentiality, the writer loves something on the plain. Finally, the actual contradictions come to light: the brewer as an exponent of a population who has no choice but to conform to the harsh social and political facts, and the author as a representative of those who can follow the principles and who can draw attention to themselves ...

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