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Redevelopment

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  6w, 7m

James Saunders, Vaclav Havel

By Vaclav Havel
Translated by James Saunders

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    6w, 7m

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Summary

In an attractive mountain stronghold lying above an exceptionally ugly town, a team of architects lives and works. They are planning a radical restoration of the village that is a soulless, characterless drawing board monstrosity. The residents protest but are met with arrogance from the authorities. After a phase of apparent acquiescence comes a rude awakening.

Cast Attributes
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting

    A spacious hall in a medieval castle

Media

"On a realistic level, the play is about a universal architectural dilemma ... But it also works as a political metaphor about the whimsical arbitrariness of autocracy ... This is vintage Havel: creating a work that is both specific and universal, tragic

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Authors

James Saunders

James Saunders
James Saunders was born on January 8, 1925, in Islington, North London. After receiving an Arts Council Playwrights’ Bursary for THE ARK in 1960 he became a full-time playwright in 1964. His early plays led him to be considered one of the main British exponents of the Theatre ...
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Vaclav Havel

Vaclav Havel
Václav Havel (1936 – 2011) was born in Prague, and was the first president of post-communist Czechoslovakia and the proceeding Czech Republic. In addition to his notoriety from a long history of Czech political involvement, he is regarded as one of the most influential Europe ...
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