presented by Flat Earth Theatre
By Václav Havel
Translated by Vera Blackwell
Directed by Victoria Rose Townsend
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
January 11th – 19th, 2013
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Review by Craig Idlebrook
If Václav Havel’s life is any indication, it may wise not to let your biography get more interesting than your scripts. The Czech playwright went from a persecuted critic of Communism to his country’s first freely-elected president. His play, The Memorandum, here translated by Vera Blackwell, now often inevitably is viewed through that lens. Continue reading