Zvuky Prahy / Sounds of Prague

Fragment of and evening with director and psychologist Ivan Vyskočil (born 1929) one of the founders or Czech contemporary theater. Vyskočil wrote most of his innovative short stories during the 1960s. He was one of the first writers to develop the poetics of the absurd (also called \Prague irony\), which fed on grotesque visions of the world and adapted Gogol's idea of laugher through tears to the new, \modern\ condition of being, as seen in the works by Kafka, Hašek. He was among the circle of authors that included Václav Havel who began to develop his own version of theater of the absurd between the late 1950s and early 1960s. It focuses on the use (and abuse) of language. He selects an ordinary event or phrase from the \real life\ of the everyday and accepts its own \logic\ which, when developed, exposes absurd consequences.