Vaclav Havel, playwright and first president of the Czech Republic after the velvet revolution, will join a long cast of actors and writers at London's Royal Court theatre on June 18 for Cries From The Heart, a celebration of the work of Human Rights Watch.
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See articleVaclav Havel, a dissident playwright and the first president of post-communist Czechoslovakia, died on December 18th.
It's a political play dedicated to Vaclav Havel, the playwright, poet and former president of the Czech Republic.
In 1990 Vaclav Havel, the playwright who became president of the Czech Republic in 1993, told a joint session of the U.S. Congress, "Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better... and the catastrophe towards which this world is headed -- the ecological, social, demographic, or general breakdown of civilization -- will be unavoidable".
Playwright-and one of London's first graffiti artists-Heathcote Williams was ambassador to Great Britain.
He had a close friendship with Vaclav Havel, the playwright, leader of the dissidents and future president of a liberated Czechoslovakia.
Mr. Topol first performed in 1978, when he was 13, at a gathering of dissidents at the country retreat of the playwright and future Czech president Vaclav Havel.
Mr. Havel, a playwright and a dissident, became president of the post-Soviet Czechoslovakia almost by acclimation in 1989.
