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TEMPTATION by Vaclav Havel...
When New York City's Public Theater produced his The Memorandum in 1968, Vaclav Havel sat in the audience. But by the time his The Increased Difficulty of Concentration was mounted the following year, the Soviets had marched into his native Czechoslovakia, and Havel was no longer able to travel. His works have been banned from Czech stages. For his human-rights activism, he has repeatedly been jailed. This week, when the Public opened his Temptation, Havel was serving an eight-month sentence for "incitement" and "a public order misdemeanor" during a peaceful demonstration in January protesting the legacy...
...city's annual Humana Festival redeems its reputation with promising works by writers known and unknown. -- Temptation, by jailed Czech activist Vaclav Havel, opens off-Broadway...
Whole segments of the East bloc, once firmly under the thumb of Soviet orthodoxy, are launched in headlong pursuit of a new political and economic order. But not all. In Bulgaria an aging leadership shows no sign of interest in homegrown perestroika. In Czechoslovakia, where leading dissident Vaclav Havel has been sentenced to jail, trials moved into a second month for other activists held on charges ranging from organizing peaceful antigovernment demonstrations to signing political petitions. And in Stalinist Rumania, party leader Nicolae Ceausescu remains the "Idi Amin of Communism," as his neighbors call him. The unregenerate totalitarian, obsessed with...
...Vaclav Havel has been fighting for freedom in Czechoslovakia since the day Warsaw Pact forces crushed the reform movement that flowered in the spring of 1968. So it was hardly surprising that he was arrested on Jan. 16, along with eight other activists, while trying to lay flowers in Prague's Wenceslas Square. That was where student Jan Palach set himself ablaze two decades earlier to protest the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia...