Prague to stage Havel's first play in 20 years - Feature

                   
earthtimes.org     May 21, 2008            

Prague - Vaclav Havel wrote a play about leaving and turned it into his big comeback. At age 71, the former Czech president and communist-era dissident playwright is back on stage with a long-awaited new piece, Leaving, his first in 20 years. It open... [read full story]                

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Vaclav Havel returns to original vocation with staging of first new play in 20 years

iht.com     May 20, 2008          

It's been an eagerly anticipated comeback. The first new work in 20 years by Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who led Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution and went on to become its president, is having its world premiere on Thursday at Prague's Archa Theater. "Leaving" is about the leader of...                

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Radok rehearses Havel play in record time

praguemonitor.com     May 21, 2008          

By ČTK / Published 21 May 2008 Prague, May 20 (CTK) - Czech director David Radok has prepared the drama Leaving by former president Vaclav Havel in a record short time for its world premiere to be held on May 22-24, Ondrej Hrab, head of Prague's Archa Theatre that will stage the play, told...                

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Former Czech president savours theatrical comeback (AFP)

yahoo.com     May 22, 2008          

PRAGUE (AFP) - The Czech Republic's playwright former president Vaclav Havel is savouring the world premiere of his latest play "Departing" (Odchazeni) at Prague's Archa theatre on Thursday. "The staging of 'Departing' was an agreeable surprise" commented the daily Pravo "...one can already...                

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Vaclav Havel's first new play in 20 years has international premiere in Prague

iht.com     May 22, 2008          

The first new work in 20 years by Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who led Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution and went on to become its president, is having its world premiere. "Leaving" is about the leader of an unspecified country who leaves politics after many years in power and has to...                

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Havel's first new play in 20 years has international premiere in Prague

iht.com     May 23, 2008          

It's been a long 20 years for Vaclav Havel. In 1988, the name of the then dissident playwright could not be even mentioned in the premiere production of his previous play "Tomorrow!" in the communist Czechoslovakia. On Thursday, Havel joined the actors and actresses and director David Radok on...                

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