Václav Havel
INCREASED DIFFICULTY OF CONCENTRATION (ZTÍŽENÁ MOŽNOST SOUSTŘEDĚNÍ, 1968)
4 men, 4 women
A play in two acts
Scientific researcher Eduard Huml has to dodge between the demands of his wife and his mistress, promising each of them that at the next opportunity he is going to finish with Her. At the same time he is unsuccessfully making a play for his secretary Blanka, to whom he is dictating his new work, a textbook on the theme of human happiness. One day, some sociologist burst into his flat with a new discovery - a kind of a prototype of a computer (the play was written in 1968) called a puzuk, which by analysing one human individual is supposed to come to general conclusion. Unfortunately it is such a sensitive and capricious instrument that it is unable to function meaningfully in Huml's flat. It seems more as if Huml's household and Huml himself are beginning to resemble the jammed computer...