THE DOMAIN (PANSTVÍ)
M 3, F2
Rich and Katcha, typical Prague middle class people with a notebook, bought a summer house and start to run it. Katcha was even presented with a tracksuit for her birthday... Rob, Rich’s friend and subordinate comes to visit with his girlfriend Marie. The friends are slowly getting drunk, organize a swimming competition in the firemen pond while the women talk about them and the meat is grilled.
The action changes when an unknown 14 years old boy crashes his bicycle into Rich’s car and bleeds. His injuries are treated and the boy is – almost against his will – put to bed and made spend the night in the summer house. He is drinking with the others and suggests that the house might not be safe. During the night, Rob and Katcha meet at the outhouse and the audience finds out they know each other for a while and there is still a spark going on between them. The boy wants to leave the place at any price but he is prevented from going away.
In the morning, Rob and Marie are getting ready to go home. Marie finds the boy in the larder where he had been sleeping. He is dead. Rob and Marie depart, leaving it to Rich and Katcha to call the police of the undertaker.
The text paints the atmosphere of a mysterious house contrasting it with the problems of the well-off summer-house owners from Prague and their guests. The dialogues show the generally flat life of the play’s protagonists; only the sudden death of the boy who appeared out of nowhere brings a touch of a new and local problem. On top of that, the boy says a couple of mysterious lines in an (unknown?) language during the night...
The script was shortlisted in the Alfréd Radok Competition for the best original Czech or Slovak play for 2008.