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Václav Havel: Ela, Hela and the Hitch

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: June 16, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00

Old ladies are hitchhiking for the first time. They have their ethical principles, their flowerpots, their planter boxes, their rollmops, their crosses and habits, their social position…

Featuring: Tereza Soběslavová, Lenka Skalická and Kateřina Urbánková – Charlieho foxíci, Gymnázium Jiřího z Poděbrad grammar school, Poděbrady.

“With the repetition, variation, entanglement and disintegration of speech in the sketch Ela, Hela and the Hitch from 1961, Václav Havel revealed the stylistic devices of his dramatic trademark,” says the literary and theatre theoretician Lenka Jungmannová, who will be the evening’s second guest and will discuss Václav Havel’s earliest dramatic texts.

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