Havel's play "After Resignation" has a special status. First of all, because a playwright, who for twenty years was engaged in a completely different sphere of public life, returned to the Czech stage, and also a former Czech president. But one should not see in the work only the generalized experience of the author during his stay in politics and measure the events and characters of the play through the prism of political reality. The main character - Chancellor Rieger - retires in an unnamed country, at an unnamed time. The plot of the play is modeled after Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" — it is both Rieger's forced departure from the government villa and the motif of a cherry orchard that is cut down to build a giant shopping center in its place. The drama is very transparently based on Chekhov's bitter humor. In particular, her characters often utter lines borrowed from The Cherry Orchard. At the same time, the influence of Shakespeare's "King Lear" is also present here. The theme of departure, loneliness, aging, changes and misunderstandings in one's own family have been covered more than once in the world drama, but Havel looks at it a little differently, self-ironically, as if admitting that he cannot come to terms with these things, and at the same time asking himself: and why should he worry about it? In his comments in the play from the protagonist "The Voice", which resemble Brecht's remarks, he demonstrates his writing flaws and problems.
