Since it premiered at the Rokoko stage of Prage Municipal Theatre, My Country by Iva Klestilová became a cult. There are waiting lists even for extra seats. The play's opening inspired a reviewer, Jana Machalická, to write an essay about the re-birth of the political theatre in the Czech Republic. It appeared in Lidové Noviny's supplement Orientace on 18 February 2006 with the title The Clowns and the Kings: „Theatre cannot avoid politics, it cannot constantly produce plays about private problems. It has to reach for the context of its time, otherwise it will keep being toothless. Iva Klestilová with My Country opened a door and threw out rubbish other people would not even touch. These plays by her obviously have only a limited life-span, but at the moment they work flawlessly and it's not that important whether others label them as audience decoy and a bizarre phenomenon on the borderline between theatre and cabaret, or as a grotesque and pitiless parable."