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Václav Havel writes to Alfréd Radok

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: December 3, 2014, 19:00 – 21:00

In connection with the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great Czech modern theatre and film director Alfréd Radok, the VHL has prepared an evening in cooperation with the Alfréd Radok Awards Foundation dedicated to the strong friendship between the emergent writer Havel and Radok, a theatrical wizard who was not popular with the regime.

The evening will centre on a reading of a fragment of their correspondence; unfortunately all that has been preserved is Havel’s letters from his involuntary exile in Hrádeček to the director, who was in involuntary exile in Sweden. They paint an authentic picture of the stifling atmosphere in Czechoslovakia in the first half of the 1970s and of the rather hopeless situations the friends found themselves in. Havel concisely describes Radok’s work with actors in texts, reflecting the years that he spent as his assistant director. Guests who knew the two will deliver readings of the letters.

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