Václav Havel - Protest, Audience

Name: Václav Havel - Protest, Audience
Start: 2026-11-19T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-11-19T22:00:00+01:00
Location: Klub Paderewski

Thu, 19 Nov 2026 · 19:30

Paderewski Club, Karlovy Vary

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Theatre on the Second Move presents two one-act plays by Václav Havel, Protest and Audience, on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of his birth. Directed by Radek Bár and Tomáš Zámečník.

About the venue: Paderewski Club

Klub Paderewski is an independent cultural club that has been part of the Karlovy Vary cultural scene since 20 November 1999. Since the 2009–10 season it has been based at the Husovka theatre on Husovo náměstí, near the Municipal Theatre. The club hosts around six to seven events per month, including concerts, theatre performances, author readings, lectures and exhibitions. Since 2005 it has also run its own theatre stage, Divadlo V patře.

Husovo náměstí 270/2, 360 01 Karlovy Vary Get directions

About: Václav Havel

Václav Havel (1936–2011) was a Czech playwright, essayist, and statesman. Known for absurdist plays such as The Garden Party, he became a key figure of resistance to communist rule. After the Velvet Revolution of 1989, he served as the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic.

since 2013

Václav Havel Prize for Human Rights - awarded annually

60 000 EUR

Amount of the Václav Havel Prize for Human Rights award

90+

Libraries participating in the Reading Havel 2026 event

What's new

2026-04
As part of the HAVEL90 project, on April 23, 2026, over 90 Czech libraries participated in a nationwide happening "Reading Havel", commemorating the dramatist's 90th birthday.
2026-09
The National Theatre is preparing a Czech premiere of an original production based on Havel's essay "The Power of the Powerless" for September 2026 at Prague Crossroads.
2025-09
The Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize for 2025 was awarded by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to Ukrainian journalist Maksym Butkevych - for the first time in the history of the prize, it was won by a Ukrainian.

Tracks

Zahradní slavnostA breakthrough theatrical play from 1963 that launched Havel's international career as a dramatist

VyrozuměníAn absurdist play from 1965 featuring a fictional bureaucratic language ptydepe, performed on world stages to this day

Moc bezmocnýchA key political essay from 1978 that became a manifesto of dissent in Central and Eastern Europe

AudienceA one-act play from 1975 featuring the character Ferdinand Vaňka, Havel's own alter ego

Dopisy OlzeA collection of letters written from prison to his wife Olga, published in samizdat in 1985, today considered a literary and human document

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