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Leaving
Václav Havel, renowned playwright (Temptation, Largo Desolato) and former President of the Czech Republic, returns to the theater with his first play in 20 years, and Wilma audiences will be the first to see it in the U.S. Leaving is an inventive story of a recently retired Chancellor who struggles over questions of truth and power along with his eccentric family and humorous bevy of functionaries. Allusions from Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Shakespeare's King Lear invade the Chancellor's consciousness in this wry political tragicomedy that received critical acclaim in Prague and in London where The Sunday Times hailed it as, "Thrillingly funny...a hilarious send-up of politics and of theatre!"
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Q: Havel draws upon techniques, images, and perhaps even quotations from his earlier plays in Leaving. What do you think would be useful for an American audience to know about Havel’s dramaturgy?
A: It might be useful for audiences to keep in mind that Havel sees himself as a playwright in the tradition of absurd drama, whose antecedents include Eugene Ionesco and Samuel Beckett, to name just two...
It’s not often you have the chance to produce a play written by someone who is also ranked on Foreign Policy magazine’s list of the “100 Top Global Thinkers” (number 23, between economist Robert Shiller and futurist Chris Anderson). But Václav Havel’s life has been anything but usual...
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Honorary Producer Dan Berger