A man in his fifties, a newly-understood cancer patient, leaves Prague’s homosexual community. In his native Sudetenland, he takes care of his mother suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and writes. Everyday coexistence is filled with banal and very authentic incidents of common decay. Listen to the premiere online for one week after the broadcast. The show is not suitable for children and adolescents.
It works:
Jan Kolařík
Dramaturgy:
Petra Hynčíková
Directed by:
Radim Nejlý
Premiere:
24. 9. 2023
Recorded in the Brno studio of Czech Radio.
The show is not suitable for children and adolescents.
The narrator refers to the daily process of putting the sick mother to sleep as the ritual of the Turin Horse (alluding to the Hungarian film directed by Béla Tarr). Even thanks to the author’s (self) irony, hope always prevails in the narrative.
Writing continues to loom as my dark shadow. Like I locked myself in the bathroom with him and secretly fucked him there.
The fragmentary story captures with impressive openness both the narrator’s struggle with his mother, with a late coming out, but also with his own illness and aging. The hero escapes from the daily care routine to literature. For him, writing has not only a therapeutic effect.
A sovereign literary debut, to the regret of readers, is also an epilogue. Martin Skořepa died on 14 June 2022 at the age of 61.
2023-09-25 22:17:41
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