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... as capturing W play of the 1990-91 season are seen not as conditioned something "in the air" without being at the Yale Repertory exclusively by s ocio poli t i c a1 nihilistic or hopeful. This perspective Theater, Havel's Largo Desolato, a factors, but as a result...

... that he sat when his play re- into the arms of an infatuated tango bureaucratic machine; and it little mat- ceived its belated American premiere dancer. The Institute threatens to ters whether or not even the scientist is last April. Havel probably enjoys the dismiss Foustka unless he...

...Dennis C. Beck Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2007 Acts of Courage: Václav Havel's Life in the Theatre 
 by Carol Rocamora
 2005: Smith and Kraus Books Stanley Kauffmann Separate but Inseparable Theater and Film: A Comparative Anthology edited by Robert...

...? doi 10.1215/01610775-2006-014 89 beck Dennis C. Beck A Life of Slaying Dragons and Other Dramatic Business Acts of Courage: Václav Havel’s Life in the Theatre by Carol Rocamora 2005: Smith...

...? doi 10.1215/01610775-2006-014 89 beck Dennis C. Beck A Life of Slaying Dragons and Other Dramatic Business Acts of Courage: Václav Havel’s Life in the Theatre by Carol Rocamora 2005: Smith...

...? doi 10.1215/01610775-2006-014 89 beck Dennis C. Beck A Life of Slaying Dragons and Other Dramatic Business Acts of Courage: Václav Havel’s Life in the Theatre by Carol Rocamora 2005: Smith...

...? doi 10.1215/01610775-2006-014 89 beck Dennis C. Beck A Life of Slaying Dragons and Other Dramatic Business Acts of Courage: Václav Havel’s Life in the Theatre by Carol Rocamora 2005: Smith...

...Mohammad Kowsar Copyright © THEATER 1990 1990 Havel, like many playwrights, harbors serious reservations) has begun to close FATHERS AND SONS AT ACT off as many theatrical possibilities as it once opened. Its whimsy and self-con- suming ennui...

... Daniel Gerould word—sometimes two forewords!—by distin- guished artists and writers of the caliber of Yuri Infernal Circles of Liubimov, Václav Havel, Árpád Göncz...

... of theater and politics in modern Czech history The Lithuanian director Eimuntas than the fact that a playwright, Václav Havel, Nekrosius lashes out at those disconcerted by led Czechoslovakia out of communism in 1989...

... by Vaclav Havel, translated by Vera Blackwell. Directed by Joseph Papp. New York Public Theatre. . Kongi's Harvest by Wole Soyinka. Directed by Michael A. Schultz. Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse. Daddy Goodness by Richard Wright and Louis Sapin. Directed by Douglas Turner Ward...

.... Chekhovian Echoes in Havel” (essay), 20-26. Vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 86-90. Coleman, C.B., “Bulgakov’s The Smeliansky, Anatoly, “The Last Crimson Isle: The Art of Satire in the - “Santa Claus in the Video Store...

... in the eternal power of theater to present, history that is not merely a pseudo-patriotic renew itself must aspire. recognition of ancestral holidays. The playwright, Vaclav Havel, now amazingly President of Czechoslovakia, wrote in one of his perceptive essays which contributed so much...

... this before. We've always of the two superpowers we have an actor and a writer!" been held by the throat, and now this hand that was Actually writers or actors very often become presidents holding us so tightly has loosened, but we haven't learned now. Oleg spoke with Vaclav Havel, and Havel said...

..., Penguin Press collaborations of Otomar Krejca and Josef Svoboda, the early work of Václav Havel and For Frank Kermode it is self-evident that Jan Grossman, and the dynamic productions of Shakespeare’s plays derive their power from...

...- meine, hen, 7. 12. 77 (22) Harry G. Havel, Mit Schnaps und Schlafsack zur Theaterpleite des Jahres, Express, Koln, 3. 12. 77 (23) F. Cre., Ein Reisender...

... jailed leftists in the pristine mold of Vaclav Havel. Not that it would make much difference if all these temperamental difficulties disap- peared. For the bulk of English translations of Muller’s work are unusable. I once asked him if he cared that his designated translator for the entire...

... scripts and performance at the front provide a kind of testimony that is entirely lacking in war drama of the après-guerre. As Václav Havel wrote in his prison letters to Olga: “Today I watched a variety show put on by prisoners for other prisoners. I...

... more permanent. He owes it, of course, to truth and to dramatic art.” And here is the subtler point: the essence of theater in our time, I think, isn’t in power but rather the opposite. Václav Havel, the playwright turned statesman, a quint- essential outsider turned insider, said in his 1991...

..., although-or perhaps because-it didn’t have to deal with the heavyhanded censorship of other Eastern European countries, never produced artists as profound as Kantor and Grotowski, as influential as Havel, as perfected in their acting and scenography as Brecht’s epigones, or as reckless as Heiner...