The Vanek Trilogy

You’ve seen him hobnobbing with Bill Clinton, partying (and attending IMF meetings) with Bono, and doing other cool and prestigious things that world-class playwrights-cum-presidents do. But have you actually seen a play by Vaclav Havel? (We won’t ask about the political essays.) Now’s your chance. Known as Havel’s most “successful” (read: accessible) work, the three autobiographical one-acts comprising The Vanek Trilogy were written in the late ’60s after the Soviet clampdown in Czechoslovakia. Don’t let the idea of Eastern European absurdism put you off: The Ministry of Cultural Warfare likes serious drama, but that doesn’t mean they take it—or themselves—too seriously.
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