Protest
From: Monday, 10th November 2008
To: Saturday, 6 December 2008
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Synopsis
Protest concerns the arrest of a pop musician. Vanek is invited to the house of Stanek, a well-known writer and media figure. But why has he been invited? And is it fortunate that he happens to have in his pocket a petition protesting at the singer's arrest?
Our Review:
11 November 2008
The Vaclav Havel season at the Orange Tree has been one of the year’s highlights. The third programme – and you can see the latest play and the two 1970s double-bills on three upcoming “Havel Bonanza” Saturdays – comprises Protest and Private View, two of the Vanek plays which show the beleaguered writer under the insidious cosh.
In Protest, the struggling playwright Vanek (Christopher Naylor), newly released from prison, is summoned to the home of a successful television writer Stanek (Jonathan Guy Lewis). Much to Vanek’s surprise, Stanek implies he wants to protest against the imprisonment of a dissident pop musician; Stanek’s daughter is expecting the musician’s baby.
It so happens that Vanek has his own petition in his briefcase and edges towards asking Stanek to sign it. The dialogue spirals into a wonderfully supple argument by Stanek as to why he shouldn’t, and how not signing ...
Creative
Vaclav Havel (Author)
Orange Tree (Producer)
Carol Rocamora (Translation)
Tomas Rychetsky (Translation)
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