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The Garden Party: and Other Plays (Havel, Vaclav) Paperback – January 18, 1994

by Vaclav Havel (Author)
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Gathered together here for the first time are seven plays that span Havel's career from his early days at the Theater of the Balustrade through the Prague Spring, Charter 77, and the repeated imprisonments that made Havel's name into a rallying cry and propelled him to the leadership of his country. They include The Garden Party, The Increased Difficulty of Concentration, Mistake, the Vanek trilogy of Audience, Unveiling, and Protest, and the first fully corrected English version of The Memorandum--the play that won Havel the Obie for Best Foreign Play in 1968.

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    January 18, 1994
  5. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    080213307X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0802133076
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Gathered together here for the first time are seven plays that span Havel's career from his early days at the Theater of the Balustrade through the Prague Spring, Charter 77, and the repeated imprisonments that made Havel's name into a rallying cry and propelled him to the leadership of his country. They include The Garden Party, The Increased Difficulty of Concentration, Mistake, the Vanek trilogy of Audience, Unveiling, and Protest, and the first fully corrected English version of The Memorandum--the play that won Havel the Obie for Best Foreign Play in 1968.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grove Press; 1st Grove Press edition (January 18, 1994)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 080213307X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0802133076
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

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5.0 out of 5 stars Havel
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Vaclav Havel, enough said
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Christopher Lawson
5.0 out of 5 stars The dissident humorist writes
Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2013
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Well worth buying and reading.

Havel's dry, political humour enlivens the book.

And just to imagine that some of these plays were written in prison!
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La Mancha
5.0 out of 5 stars and beautifully absurd production of "The Garden Party" in Prague at ...
Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2014
I just saw a marvelous, riveting, and beautifully absurd production of "The Garden Party" in Prague at the Estates Theater (famous for premiere of Mozart's "Don Giovanni".) It would, I think, be difficult to "get" Havel without an understanding of the political history of the Czechs/Eastern Europeans and without knowing Havel's critical role. Getting to see "The Garden Party" on stage was such a treat! I feel so fortunate.
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T. E. Axe
3.0 out of 5 stars Do you enjoy theatre of the absurd?
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2012
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If so you will enjoy these plays that combine political commentary with dry humor. The author's story is also interesting.
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Virginia1
2.0 out of 5 stars Havel Notentertaing reading
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2013
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I had seen the" Memorandum" as a play and it was obscure and not engaging. . When I read the other plays, they were very dogmatic and not enjoyable. Well at least I have read them. Curiously Harold Pinter was a big fan of Havel's play. It is hard to see the connection.
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Martin Perelstein
4.0 out of 5 stars Good writing-absurdist short comedic plays
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2013
Good writing. Havel is very intelligent and compassionate and his plays reflect that. His work does require some reading about the censorship of communist Chekeslovakia. But once you more fully understand, you understand why he received the nobel peace prize.
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