Acts of Courage: Vaclav Havel's Life in the Theater

ContentsPreface xiAcknowledgmentsxivPrologue1Part IThe Fifties: The Education of a WriterScene One51951-1955: The Education of an Outsider71956: A Young Writer Makes His Debut171957-1959: A Soldier Plays 21Part IIThe Sixties: Enter Vaclav Havel1960: Learning the ABCs251960: The Playwright Finds a Home291963: The Garden Party391963-1964 in Prague: A Cultural Awakening491964: A Season of the Absurd at the Theatre on the Balustrade511964: Marriage551964: Anticodes571965: The Memorandum 591965-1968: From the Balustrade to the Theater of Politics691965-1968: The Increased Difficulty of Concentration711968: Guardian Angel and A Butterfly on the Antenna 791968: Prague Spring861968: New York Spring 881968: Summer941968-1969: The Aftermath99The 1960s: Conclusion102Part IIIThe Seventies: The Playwright at a Crossroads1970: A Dark Decade Begins1071970-1971: The Conspirators1101970-1976: Mountain Hotel1131971-1974: Writers in Search of a Home 1181972-1975: The Beggar's Opera1251974-1975: ?Second Wind?1441975: Audience and Vernissage1481976: A New Theatrical Home1601976-1979: Living in Truth162Charter 77 1651978: Protest 178The Vanuk Plays: A ?Light on a Landscape?184Part IVThe Eighties: Far from the TheaterMay 29, 1979-January 23, 1983: Serving the Sentence1961979-1983: Letters to Olga from ?the ConvictedVaclav Havel?2031983: Mistake2211984: Largo Desolato2271985: Temptation2411986: ?Far from the Theater?2541987: Redevelopment2611988: Tomorrow We'll Start It Up2681988-1989: Prologue for a Revolution275November-December 1989: Writing and Staging a Revolution282Opening Night288Part VThe Nineties and Beyond: Politics and Theater as OneCurtain Up2901990-1992: Havelmania293Return to the Theatre on the Balustrade304The Coming of Age of the Theatre on the Road3071993: After Havelmania3192000: In Search of a New Play by Vaclav Havel 3222003: Havel and the Theater Today326King Lear329Part VIEpilogueI Think About You a Great Deal: Albee, Beckett,Miller, Pinter, Stoppard332Homes Away from Home349Part VIICurtain CallEncore368A Legacy371A Place in Twentieth-Century Drama386More Than a Body of Dramatic Work400Final Bow405Production Photos407Appendix A: Chronology of Plays415Appendix B: Dramatis Personae and Other Names418Appendix C: Czech Pronunciation430Selected Bibliography431Notes438Index471The Author491Carol Rocamora is the author of 'Acts of Courage: Vaclav Havel's Life in the Theater', published 2005 under ISBN 9781575253442 and ISBN 1575253445.