David Drábek: On Theatre, Freedom and November 1989

Memory of the Nation East Bohemia invites audiences in Pardubice to meet playwright and director David Drábek, author of The Ball, Aquabelles and Chocolate Eaters. His work is closely associated with the Klicpera Theatre in Hradec Králové.

The discussion will cover growing up before 1989, the path to theatre and humour as a way of naming uncomfortable truths. It will also revisit November 1989, when Drábek was beginning university studies in Olomouc: the hopes of that time, his current view of them, and what freedom means in art and everyday life.