Tomáš Ráliš (CZ): Compatible Parts / Slučitelné díly, direction: Lucie Ferenzová

Photo: Adéla Vosičková

A studio Rubín, Prague, CZ
12 November 2023
After the reading followed a discussion with the authors and directors (together with the creative team of the I wil Return rehearsed reading) moderated by Natálie Strýčková Preslová.

A young adult nightmare with a hint of true crime, where we reconstruct the demise of one friendship.
But for now, Savo is part of the gang.
A vocational school, an old grimy bus stop. A vocational school is still a school.
Savo is learning how to fix cars, work with parts, how to disassemble.
The dorm is a grey block, a pain in the ass, the ass of education. It’s quite the downer.
But you can have fun with your gang, right?
This ain’t no high school musical. This is a black metal requiem for all the students form the former Eastern Bloc who are destined to end up in the hands of the employment office and the loan sharks.
People have different ways of dealing with it. Booze, tobacco, junk, porn, booze, junk, junk, aggression, junk, compulsion, explosion, erection, eruption. The dorm. The dorm is a mum reeking of detergent.
There’s not really much else to do.
There’s not really anywhere to go.
But the luckier ones have the gang, like Savo. And with it come the cars, the rap, everything that just hurts so good, and helps break away the grey silence and unease.

But what if somebody were to break apart the gang?
What if somebody were about to break?