Simon Mawer: The Glass Room.
Directed by: Stanislav Moša
The play introduces the fate of Liesel and Viktor Landauer, for whom a famous architect builds a modern villa with a huge glass room. The building has entered the history of architecture as the "Tugendhat Villa". The author, however, deals in a masterly manner with and ancient human theme of search for happiness. It seems that nothing is missing to the wealthy couple with healthy children, but as it happens in life, the truth is different. Their personal life becomes the main character in that "glass room", a phenomenon of world architecture around which European history from the thirties to the nineties passes by. "... the glass space was becoming a Glass Dream, a dream that fit the atmosphere of the new state in which they lived, the state where it was not important who was a Czech, who was a German and who a Jew, where democracy reigned and where science and art made joint effort to bring happiness to everyone ... "
