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Challenges, paradoxes, plays... And Václav Havel’s Pantomime too

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: October 6, 2014, 19:00 – 21:00

“Perpetual motion, or seven days of Mr. A”

This virtually unknown libretto of a pantomime, authored by Václav Havel, was created in spring 1989 at the request of friends in prison.

A copy of the letter to Olga Havlová in which the writer included the libretto is preserved in the archive of the Václav Havel Library. The text has been studied by artists and teachers form the Department of Pantomime at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. The evening is being held to mark the occasion of what would have been Václav Havel’s birthday.

With the directorial note “Imagination places no limits on itself!” the author encouraged the performers to find a way to produce a modern stage rendition of his libretto.

The performance is the work of: Radim Vizváry, Vojtěch Svoboda, Ladislava Petišková, Vlastislav Matoušek and Karel Šimek.

This series of evenings dedicated to the plays of Václav Havel is organised by Anna Freimanová.

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