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The theatrical play Temptation from 1985 was performed for the first time the following year on the stage of the Vienna Burgtheater (while in Czechoslovakia until the Velvet Revolution). Havel's free paraphrase of Faustian motifs, which has attracted attention since its inception as one of the author's best dramatic texts (and at the same time as an 'unfinished' text, as every director will quickly realize), can certainly be ranked among the best of the world's large set of Faustiades. At the same time, her home staging history of recent years owed a lot to the work. The newest – the eighth – Czech production of the remarkable work was prepared by the committed independent Brno Feste Theater under the leadership of its principal Jiří Honzírek in April 2021 in unique industrial premises. The production team found the key to the interpretation of the work growing out of the author's experiences - when the playwright himself experienced a state of emergency and proceeded to a strategic 'trade' with his morality or soul - in the various forms and consequences of loyal action. It is precisely loyalty that he perceives as an essential interface between the past, in which the context of late communism or socialism is reflected, and the global present - with its vast media space and social networks. On stage, he realizes the theme in the specific genre of Havel farce. The major staging vicissitudes that preceded the premiere and which had nothing to do with the vicissitudes surrounding the creation of the dramatic text itself, resulted in a cultural event that deserves attention. On the one hand, as an extraordinary theater, on the other - and perhaps above all - as an extremely beneficial contribution to today.