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Largo Desolato

Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy  /  3w, 9m, 2 any gender (adult)

Tom Stoppard, Vaclav Havel

Largo Desolato
by Vaclav Havel
English version by Tom Stoppard

"Stoppard's version emerges as a wonderfully comic and unself pitying piece.... The brilliance extends beyond its own country to the civil rights public at large.... It takes a comic writer of genius to make something funny out of this." - London…

Largo Desolato

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    3w, 9m, 2 any gender (adult)

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Summary
Professor Leopold Nettles is the author of a book that contains a troublesome paragraph. Accused of disturbing the intellectual peace, he is pressed by the government to deny what he has written. Internal demons join the external ones torturing the professor. Czechoslovakia's foremost playwright, an artist at odds with his government whose works are banned in his own country, has created a vivid and terrifying portrait of the writer in a totalitarian state.
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting A living-room

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Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard’s most recent play, Leopoldstadt, opened at Wyndham's Theatre in 2020 and transferred to Broadway in 2022. It won multiple Awards, including an Olivier Award and Tony Award for Best Play. He wrote his first play, Enter a Free Man, whilst working as a journalist i ...

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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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