Largo Desolato (1987)

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Duben 17, 2012

Václav Havel. Rozhlasová verze divadelní hry. Překlad Tom Stoppard. Režie Matthew Walters.

Osoby a obsazení: profesor Leopold Nettles (Richard Briers),Edward (Paul Gregory), Suzanna (Jennifer Pierceyová), první Sidney / Láďa (Philip Jackson), druhý Sidney / Láďa (David Goodland), Lucy (Belinda Lang), Bertram (John Moffatt), první chlap (Anthony Jackson), druhý chlap (Ian Thompson), Marguerite (Sue Broomfieldová).

Nastudoval BBC v roce 1987. Repríza 15. 4. 2012 (BBC Radio 3, 20:30 h.).

Lit.: anonym: Largo desolato. In web BBC Radio 3, duben 2012 (anotace). – Cit.: Theatre critic Michael Billington introduces a classic play from the archives by Czech playwright and President, Vaclav Havel, to mark Havel’s death in December last year.

When the death of the former President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel was announced last year, Europe lost one of its great dissident voices. From the 1960s to the 1980s, BBC radio broadcast many new productions of Havel’s plays – plays that were usually banned in his then-Communist homeland because of the way they mocked and interrogated the absurd nature of totalitarian rule.

Michael Billington, theatre-critic for the Guardian for much of this period, introduces another chance to hear a 1987 Havel black comedy called Largo Desolato in an English version by Tom Stoppard, himself born in Czechoslovakia.

Richard Briers stars as Leopold, a philosopher who has offended the authorities in an unnamed country. He has written a certain philosophical essay and anxiously each day awaits the knock on the door. His friends, of course, expect him to act like a hero….

To mark the recent death of Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who went on to become President of the Czech Republic following the Velvet Revolution, Radio 3 is this Sunday broadcasting a recording from 1987 of his play Largo Desolato. BBC Radio Drama made productions of many of Havelâs plays between the 1960s and 1980s, at a time when it was rare for them to be performed in his own country because of what was seen as their subversive content. The English version of this black comedy is by Tom Stoppard and the cast is led by Richard Briers as a philosophy professor whose work has riled the totalitarian regime. This archive recording is given a new introduction by theatre critic Michael Billington.