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Theatrum Elysium (La Crescenta, CA)
Theatrum Elysium presents an ambitious production of one-act plays by former Czech president, and acclaimed playwright, Václav Havel. This trilogy centers on the author’s fictional alter ego Ferdinand Vanek, who, like the late playwright-turned-statesman Havel, worked in a brewery before being jailed as a political dissident. Known as Havel’s most accessible work, this trilogy was written in the late 1960s after the Soviet clampdown in Czechoslovakia. They serve as a painfully honest documentation of the dehumanization that occurs under an oppressive government. Like the irrepressible Czech people, however, these plays contain a generous dose of ironic humor that makes keeps things entertaining and serves as a stark reminder of the importance of art within social commentary.
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