Production: Czech Radio
Author: David Košťák
Producer: Kateřina Rathouská, Marie Špalová
Director: Natália Deáková
Sound engineers: Dominik Budil, Daniel Kordík
Other key staff: Sebastian Lang (music)
Synopsis:
The Last of the Mohicans delivers the confession of the last living white heterosexual man — a modern outsider who feels pushed aside, misunderstood, and ridiculed in a rapidly changing world. The text, constructed as a stream of consciousness, oscillates between black humor, bitter irony, and poetic absurdity.
In his writing, the author David Košťák has long returned to the techniques of magical realism and variations on ancient motifs. In The Last of the Mohicans, he draws loosely on Aeschylus' Oedipus: the central character is a hero convinced of his own moral superiority, whose blindness, however, becomes a source of self-destruction. The tragedy here does not arise from external conflict, but from hubris – from the inability to admit that the world may be governed by a different order than the one the hero has adopted.
As in ancient tragedy, catharsis does not come through victory or redemption, but through insight that comes too late. The listener is not invited to sympathize with the hero, but to recognize the mechanism that triggers the tragedy: fear disguised as morality.
David Košťák is a Czech playwright of the middle generation who devotes himself to writing for radio and theater. He writes texts for both children and adult audiences, combining generational irony with pure sentiment, emphasizing the voices of those who are often overlooked or silenced in an effort to offer unexpected perspectives. His plays are performed on stages in Czechia and abroad.
The play The Last of the Mohicans was created in collaboration between Czech Radio and Divadlo Letí, a theater that focuses on new Czech drama.
