Ferdinand Vanek is a playwright and on the blacklist. Instead of the pen, he lifts heavy beer barrels
at a brewery. One day he obtains an audience of the master brewer and is offered a job as chairman. But what are the advantages and what are the circumstances? And who is he doing a favour? Václav Havel’s first one-act play about his alter ego, Vanek, a writer just released from prison in the 1970’es Czechoslovakia. The play is about money, principals, betrayal and a whole lot of beer.
