Playwright Tom Stoppard in conversation with
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Interview with Translator Paul Wilson
Q: Havel draws upon techniques, images, and perhaps even quotations from his earlier plays in Leaving. What do you think would be useful for an American audience to know about Havel’s dramaturgy?
A: It might be useful for audiences to keep in mind that Havel sees himself as a playwright in the tradition of absurd drama, whose antecedents include Eugene Ionesco and Samuel Beckett, to name just two...
an absurdist drama from a surrealist politician
It’s not often you have the chance to produce a play written by someone who is also ranked on Foreign Policy magazine’s list of the “100 Top Global Thinkers” (number 23, between economist Robert Shiller and futurist Chris Anderson). But Václav Havel’s life has been anything but usual...
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